Scarecrow of Oz

In L. Frank Baum’s “The Scarecrow of Oz” (1915), Cap’n Bill, a little girl named Trot, and Button-Bright from “The Road to Oz” are marooned in Jinxland, a mountainous region adjacent to Oz, but separated by a bottomless chasm. Here they get embroiled in a political rivalry between good King Kynd and the notorious usurper Krewl. When the Scarecrow gets wind of the trouble via Glinda’s Great Book of...