It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read The House of Zebulun by Jan Chapman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Historical fiction based on true characters and events.From the back cover: In a story spanning from near the end of the Civil War through the middle of the twentieth century, The House of Zebulun is a historical family novel, including the documented events of the family of Jan Harding Chapman. In the years following the Civil War, the patriarch of this family, Dr. Zebulun Wheeler Ingrahm disappears in a Wells Fargo stage coach hold up, his body never found. His wife Sarah and her young son Clyde would eventually forge their own path through the Nebraska territory and later on into the Territory of the Red Man, and participate in the founding of a town that sprang up out of the prairie when the land was opened to white settlers.On the founding day of this town, that would later be ironically named for the man, Carnegie, who was responsible for the Iron Horse and the steel rails opening this frontier, a distinctive family rode in: Sarah, a civil war nurse, widow, and proprietor of four Nebraska boarding houses; Clyde, her son, who had produced Wild West shows with his "sharpshooter" wife and their two small children, and their loyal companion called "Chinaman John".The stories of this strange, yet true to life, little family with their beautiful show horses and trained dogs have been passed down through generations of the family of The House of Zebulun: stories of war time horrors and adventures, the running of boarding houses and restaurants, the Oklahoma Land Run, and most of all stories of loyalty and friendship.Over a century later, the story continues when the mystery of what happened to the disappearing Zebulun surfaces. Shhh! Don't spoil the secret of The House of Zebulun.
The House of Zebulun by Jan Chapman is 354 pages long, and a total of 89,916 words.
This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read The House of Zebulun aloud.
The House of Zebulun is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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