Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
55154
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
171
Points per Page
0.052632
Description
A collection of late nineteenth-century letters by a Texas sheep rancher to his sweetheart in which he reveals the painful loneliness of life on the plains.