{"id":2476,"date":"2007-06-11T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:38","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-mad-maude-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"48 Hour Book Challenge : Mad Maude Rides Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first<a href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/wildly-successful-adventure.html\" target=\"_blank\"> extraordinary Maude March adventure<\/a> tells the story of how Maude and her sister-disguised-as-brother, Sallie, ended up on the run when their Aunt Ruthie was shot by a drunken cowboy. After a long journey to find their Uncle Arlen in lawless Independence, Missouri, the girls have taken on jobs and have put together a family, of sorts. But Maude is still at large and WANTED posters still feature a version of her face and description. When Uncle <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebcobooks.com\/storyimage\/RH832467.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>Arlen is called away to an emergency out in the Kansas territory, the girls know they&#8217;ll miss him, but they&#8217;re not too worried. Not, until, they receive a mysterious telegraph message that makes them believe he&#8217;s driving into further danger than they expected. Maude determines it&#8217;s time to ride to Uncle Arlen&#8217;s rescue, but they aren&#8217;t expecting a couple of slimy bounty hunters to turn Maude over to the Sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>Resourceful dime novel reader Sallie&#8217;s been prepared for something like this all along, (all the dime novels advise having a back-up plan even while laying low) and, together with her trusty sidekick, Marion &#8212; and the unexpected help of Black Hankie&#8217;s gang &#8212; they bust Maude out of jail. Another zany and wild trip through the wide-open West ensues, because once again it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=9780375832468\" target=\"_blank\">Maude March on the Run<\/a>. Sallie learns about tonics, quacks, hair dyeing, tar-and-feathering, and the kindness of strangers. She also learns how the public loves to keep a story going, and not because they love the truth.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read the <a href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/wildly-successful-adventure.html\" target=\"_blank\">first<\/a> book in this series, begin there, and double your pleasure. Maude March is a heckuva lot of fun. (But she wouldn&#8217;t take kindly to me swearing like that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first extraordinary Maude March adventure tells the story of how Maude and her sister-disguised-as-brother, Sallie, ended up on the run when their Aunt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,40,44,5],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annual-48-hour-book-challenge-contest","tag-historical-fiction","tag-humor","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}