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Exact date unknow. The book says "I left New York in May."
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His house is 6ft in diameter. He can lie down, sit, and stand in it!
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Sam helped the lady pick strawberries then walked with her back to Delhi. Sam didn't want to help her, but he did! He went to visit Miss Turner at the library, and read a few books about hawks and falcons.
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Sam picked the biggest of the nestlings. "The females are bigger than the males." Sam plans to train her to hunt food for him.
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Sam made some salt, to season his food!
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In mid-June, Sam made a salty flavoring by boiling hickory sticks dry. It made a thick, black substance. Sam is going to use it to make his food taste better!
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Sam finished the salt! Now he can use it to season his food!
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Sam's bed is made from ash slats covered with hemlock boughs.
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Sam needs to kill a deer. He needs a door for his house, tethers for Frightful, and a blanket for warmth.
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Sam wants a raft for fishing in some places he can't get to!
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Sam's raft is almost done!
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To hot to be fireing clay pots, but Bando does it anyway! He fills the pots up with Jam!
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Bando taught Sam how to make Willow whistels.
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Sam is sad, because Bando left!
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The Baron Weasel looked moldy.
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Sam got clay for a fire place.
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Sam got the fireplace well enough that it didn't full the tree with smoke!
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Sam has been up, and down the mountain everyday! And he is collecting nuts with the squrriels.
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Sam celebrates Halloween!
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All the animals came and wrecked Sam's tree house. They stole his food and made a mess.
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Sam got awaken by a shot from a rifle. Hunting Season hed started!
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Sam is dressed head to toe in deerskin.
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Sam started getting wood for fires!
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Hunters are excellent friends, if they are used correctly. Two weeks after Hunting Season!
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The snow begins!
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Sam holed up in his tree home and ate turtle soup, and acorn pancakes.
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Sam was wondering if Bando was gonna come to see him!
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Sam is worried that Bando might not come to visit!
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Bando was still not at Sam's. At 4:30 that afternoon he arrived!
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Sam's dad arrives, with good news!
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Sam's dad met Frightful. Frightful also caught herself a phesant!
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Bando has to leave to grade papers.
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Sam's dad went back to New York.
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Sam heard somethung in his bedroom, he thinks it might be a mouse.
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Sam made snow shoes out of Ash sapling slats, he wittled them thin enough to bow, soaked them in water to make them bend easier, looped the two ends together, and wound them with hide. With his penknife he made holes an inch apart all around the loop. He strung deer hide crisscross through the loops, he made a loop of hide to hold his toes and straps to hold his shoes on!
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Sam sees the mouse and feeds him a nut meat!
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Sam took Frightful out today, they went to the medow and somthing frighted Frightful. It was a Great Horned Owl!
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The deer pressed all around Sam. They are hungry, they stamp out yards to feed on. Sam cuts down limbs for the deer to eat!
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Sam thinks the Great Horned Owls have eggs!
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Sam found out that the Great Horned Owls do have eggs!
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The first day of Spring! Sam is excited!