Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
37394
Points per Word
0.000187
Page Count
241
Points per Page
0.029046
Description
To support his family after a pro-slaver killed his father, Billy, then eleven, herded cattle, worked on wagon trains, and rode the Pony Express. He then became a soldier, scout, and spy in the Civil War, all by age seventeen.