Uncle Tom Andy Bill: A Story of Bears and Indian Treasure

Charles Major's 1908 Uncle Tom Andy Bill is one of my all time favorite books. It is also the favorite book of my fourth graders at the Odessa Christian School. My Uncle Albert Potter used to read this exciting adventure book when I was in seventh-grade in 1960 at the Cass-Union Elementary School in Southern Indiana not far from where the adventure was said to take place. It is filled with cliff hanging excitement and tender love. I recommend first reading his equally exciting 1908 book Bears of Blue River. Donald Potter, Odessa, TX

I was an avid reader as a boy growing up in central-Ohio and this was one of my favorite books. I would rank it right up there with Treasure Island. I believe the copy I had belonged to my great grandfater and it was old and falling apart when I read it the first of many many times. I don't know what happened to that old book; I suspect it was trashed at some point when I was out traipsing through the woods and I can't count the times since that I have wished that I had that book to read. Due at least in part to the reading of that book I am fascinated by caverns, the outdoors, and the early frontier days when Ohio and Indiana were the wild west.

This book was one of my favorite books as a young boy growing up in Indiana. A great adventure story taking place during pioneer days in southern Indiana.