![]() ![]() Instead of driving west to San Francisco, they would drive to the Adirondacks to unearth a buried treasure: a $150,000 trust left to Wooly. ![]() ![]() Duchess and Wooly sidetracked the road trip-the first of many such distractions. ![]() Little did they know, two of Emmett’s friends from Salina had snuck in the trunk of the warden who drove Emmett home. Towles points readers to the grand adventure we were all created for.Įmmett intends to go to Texas, but Billy reveals a discovery he made in Emmett’s absence: after leaving Nebraska, their mother had sent eight postcards from eight different spots on the Lincoln Highway-the U.S.’s first cross-country highway. Their mother had left Nebraska for California after Billy was born, and due to their father’s death and the circumstances surrounding Emmett’s stint in Salina, the brothers agree it’s time to pack up and start a new life elsewhere. It’s June 12, 1954, and he’s just been released early because his father passed away and he needs to care for his 8-year-old brother, Billy. The story begins as Emmett Watson, an 18-year-old from a small town in Nebraska, returns from a juvenile work camp. ![]()
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