Author Unknown
ReadOasis Step 3
(Part 1)

Pecos Bill had a strange childhood. It all started after his father decided that there was no longer enough room in east Texas for his family. "Pack up, Ma!" he cried. "We’ve got neighbors moving in fifty miles away! It's getting' too crowded!"

So, they loaded up a wagon with all of their things. Now some say that they had fifteen children; others say eighteen. However many there were, the children were louder than thunder. And as they set off across th...