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1. Briefly describe the main character of "English Creek," as portrayed early in the novel.

Jick McCaskill, a fourteen-year-old boy, lives in the Two Medicine National Forest in Montana. He is straddling the gap between boyhood and manhood in 1939, as the novel begins.

2. What fate befell many of the ranch families who used to live along English Creek prior to the start of the novel?

Drought and the Depression forced many ranchers in English Creek to foreclose. Wendell Williamson bought or leased the land, expanding his Double W Ranch.

3. What announcement by Jick's brother, Alec, early in Part 1, shatters the McCaskill family?

Alec tells his parents and brother, Jick, that he has decided not to attend college. The family had scrimped and saved to further Alec's education, but he wants to marry his sweetheart, Leona, and work as a rider on a ranch.

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