![]() ![]() ![]() In the morning he climbs a hill and finds a small cottage near his camp, the residence of an old man named Bill. He catches five fish, but cannot start a fire to cook them. He hitchhikes to the Catskills, and spends a lonely first night in his small hemlock lean-to. On his first night, Sam gets on a truck north of New York in search of his family's abandoned and overgrown farm in the Catskill Mountains. He leaves with only a penknife, a ball of cord, an axe, $40 which he had saved selling magazine subscriptions, and a flint and steel set which he had purchased at a store in the city. Sam runs away from his home in New York City in the month of May. My Side of the Mountain tells the fictional account of how Sam Gribley survives in the wilderness of upstate New York. It is set in the Catskill Mountains near Delhi, New York. 0142401110 My Side of the Mountain is a 1959 book by Jean Craighead George. ![]()
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