However, in the morning while the Kid is still asleep, Grandpa has his own personal experience with the red-haired camel. His goal achieved, the Kid decides they will ride home the next day. On the third night, the Kid and Grandpa see five camels, with one having red hair actually approaching the pair. When these animals were no longer needed, some were sold but others were simply abandoned to run wild. On the second day, the Kid reveals that one of his motivations for the trip was that he wanted to see one of the camels that had been used by the US Army as pack animals prior to the American Civil War. It was there Grandpa met Henry whose mother had died the year before and whose stepfather “just up and left.” Because Henry, about 14-years-old, was a few years younger than Grandpa, he gets called Kid by Grandpa.Īrguing that “ife can’t be all about work and no play”, the Kid convinces Grandpa to use a few of his days off to saddle up and literally head for the hills with him. Though Grandpa found a job working on a ranch, the ranch’s bunkhouse was full, and Grandpa rented a room at a boarding house. That coin had transported Grandpa to Silver City, New Mexico, in the fall of 1874 during the period known as the Wild West. While Book 2 concluded with the possibility of Avery’s joining his grandfather on a time travel trip, such an opportunity will have to wait for at least another book as, after providing Avery with a mini-lesson on planting potatoes, Grandpa launches into another story, one that came out of his having drawn a 723 AD Umayyad gold dinar from the bag.
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