My brother Sam is dead

  • Period: to

    Span of the book

  • Sam's return home

  • Sam Deserts the house for the army

  • Continental soldiers arrive to take guns from the people in Reading

  • Mr Heron asks Tim to deliver letters for him

  • Life and Tim head out for Verplanks Port

  • Life is kidnapped by "cowboys"

  • Tim and Mother find out that life is dead

  • Sam is framed as a cattle thief

  • Gen. Putnam refuses their plea for clemency

  • Sam is executed

  • Epilogue