My Side Of The Mountain

By hainesd
  • The strawberry lady visits Sam mountain

    Even though he didnt want to Sam helped the lady pick strawberry then walked with her back to Delhi. While there he went to visit Miss Turner at the library and read a few books about hawks and falcons
  • Sam ran away from home

    exact date unknown the book says i left New York in May
  • Sam gats to Delhi

    By 6:00 he still hadnt found anyone in Delhi who had heard of the Griblays so he slept on the porch of the schoolhouse and ate chocolate bars for supper
  • Sam meets Ms. turner

    The librarian Miss Turner was very helpful to Sam. She found maps histories of the Catskills files of letters and deeds and finally was able to pinpoint the location of Gribleys farm for Sam
  • Sam has her tree house done

    The house is 6 feet in diameter. He can stand and lie lay down in it and there is only room for someone to sit on stump. He has a small fireplace and a chimney. He chipped out three knotholes to let air in.
  • The strawberry lady visits sams mountain

    Even though sam dident want to sam helped pick strawberrys and then walked them back to the delhi. When they went to visit Miss Turner at the library they read books about falcons and hawks.
  • The strawberry lady and sam meet

    Sam meets the strawberry lady and visits the library
  • Sam captures Fightful

    Sam picks the biggest of the nestlings. The females are bigger then the males. They are the falcons. they are the pride of the kings. She plans to train her to hunt for food.
  • Sam produces salt

    In the middle of June Sam made a salt flavoring by boiling hickory sticks that are dry. It made a thick black substance. He used it to season his food to make them taste better.
  • Sam learns to make a fire

    Sam spent his first night in the forest cold, hungry, miserable, and scared. But the next day the sun arose and Sam found a house and a friendly old man named Bill. He said if you if you are going to run off and live in the woods you better learn how to make a fire
  • Sams bed is finished

    The bed is made from ash slats covered with hemlocks boughs.
  • Sam digs a pit for a deer trap

    Sam would really want to kill a deer. He needs a door for the house, tethers for frightful, and a blanket to keep warm
  • Frightful will hop from stump to fist

    Frightful can not fly. Her wings are only a inch long. Sam seems to love her and spends time stroking and handiling her so that she will be easier to train
  • Sam digs

    Sam digs a pitton
  • Bando makes pottery

    Bando needs jars to store the blueberry jam he made on Sams mountain
  • Sam and Bando faft is almost done

    Sam and Bandos raft is almost done. Sam wants a raft to fish in deep fishing holes Bando makes pottery for blueberry
  • Bando fires is dans

    Bando fired his dans and lid Bando met Baron Weasel
  • Sam learned how to make willow whistles

    Bando taught Sam to make a willow whistles
  • Bando leaves

    Bando leaves says he will return at chrismas
  • Bando fires his jam jars and lids

    Bando used clay for the river bank to make clay pots with lids to store homemade jam
  • Baron Weasels hur looks moldy

    The seasons are changing and the animals are getting ready for winter. The Weasels coat is changing colors. Sam realizes he needs to start making winter clothes
  • Baron weasel worked

    Baron weasel worked moved chargins from sumenes to rights Sam standed winter clothes to
  • Sam got clay

    Sam got clay for a fire place
  • The fire place is working

    Sam got the fire place working well enough that it didnt fill the tree with smoke
  • Sam gathers nuts

    San and the squrriels begin to gather nuts
  • Sam works animals

    Sam works animals to a halloween party by pultes out ford
  • All the animals came and reached Sams house

    All the animals came and reached sams house. they stole his ford and made a mess. He chased them them off by growling, yelling, stomping
  • Hunting season began

    Hunting season began. Sam gets a deer that a hunter couldnt get. e got three deer that season that hunters shot
  • Wild boy suspected living off deer and nut in the wilderness

    An article in a New York newspaper tells of a boy living in the Catskills mountains
  • Sam walkes

    Sam walkes to town and meets a boy he called him Mr. Jacket. He also relised he needs to get piles of wood for winter. he is dressed in deer skin from head to toe
  • Hunting season is over

    He and Frightful have the mountain to themselves again
  • after hunting season

    Two weeks after hunting season started Sam had vennison steak dinner
  • Snow flurries begin

    The third day of December when the sky was blackened the temperture dropped, and the first flake swirled. around Sam he was scared.
  • Sams first snowstorm

    Sam holed up in his tree home and ate turtle soup, acorn pancakes, and other stores that he had squirreled away that summer
  • picking strawberries

    Headline "old woman reports meeting wild boy while picking strawberries"
  • Sam was worried

    Sam was worried that Bando might not come visit
  • Sam begins to wonder

    Sam begins to wonder if Bando would come
  • Sam hung teaberries

    Sam hung teaberries on the door
  • Bando arrived

    Bando arrived
  • Bando arrives

    Bando arrives for christmas
  • Dad arrives

    Dad arrives at christmas
  • Dad meets Frightful

    Dad meets Frightful and gets snaged by her talons
  • papers

    Bando leaves papers to grade
  • Dad goes back

    Dad goes back to New York
  • Sam hears something in is bedroom

    He thinks its probaably a mouse, and as it turns out, hes right
  • Snowshoes

    Sam makes snowshoes
  • Sam see the mouse

    Sam sees the mose and feeds it nut meat
  • Sam sees a horned owl

    Sam sees a great horned owl and new that gribley farm is a beautiful place indeed
  • June burst

    June burst over the momula
  • Photographer/Reporter appeared

    Man appered
  • Sam's family arrives

    They had chicken for supper. "chicken tastes good". ""it tastes like chicken".