Day to Day Chronology of the Famous Forty
By Ken Shepherd
***Please note, the following all contain spoilers for the forty official Oz books. These entries should NOT be examined until you have read the actual books upon which they are based.
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Day 1 - Cyclone - Dorothy & Toto carried off.
(an unknown amount of time--Baum says "hour after hour"--passes
while Dorothy is carried in the cyclone. I assume about 12 hours.)
Day 2 - Dorothy arrives in the land of the Munchkins - meets Witch of the North - night
in Boq's house
Day 3 - Dorothy encounters the Scarecrow - the three enter the great forest - night in
Tin Woodman's cottage
Day 4 - The party rescues the Tin Woodman - they encounter the Cowardly Lion - night
in forest "under a large tree"
Day 5 - The party crosses the great ditch - they meet the Kalidahs - they come to the
river - Tin Woodman makes a raft - night on river bank
Day 6 - The party crosses the river - the Scarecrow is marooned - they enter the field of
poppies in afternoon (the Tin Woodman wants to reach the Yellow Brick Road before
dark) & are rescued by the field mice - night in farmhouse in Emerald City area
(everything is green)
Day 7 - The party comes to the Emerald City in afternoon - night in Palace
Day 8 - Dorothy meets the Great Oz
Day 9 - The Scarecrow meets the Great Oz
Day 10 - The Tin Woodman meets the Great Oz
Day 11 - The Cowardly Lion meets the Great Oz
Day 12 - The party leaves the Emerald City to find the Wicked Witch of the West -
attack by wolves in afternoon - night in open field
Day 13 - The party is attacked by crows, bees, & Winkies - Winged Monkeys attack
Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, carry Dorothy, Toto & Lion to Witch's castle
Days 14-21 At this point the captivity of Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion begins. Some
days & nights pass - enough so that Dorothy and the Lion can begin plotting their
escape. I assume a minimum of a week.
Day 22 - Dorothy melts the Wicked Witch - she frees the Lion and the Winkies - they
start off in search of the Tin Woodman
Day 23 - They find the Tin Woodman
Days 24-26 - The Winkies work "for three days and four nights" to restore the Tin
Woodman - the party starts off in search of the Scarecrow
Day 27 - They find the Scarecrow after walking "all that day and part of the next"
Day 28 - The Scarecrow is restored
Days 28-30 - The reunited party spends "a few happy days" at the Witch's castle
Day 31 - The party leaves for the Emerald City - night in field
Days 32-35 - The party is lost - "day by day passed away"
Day 36 - The Queen of the Field Mice suggests using the Golden Cap - the party is
carried to the gates of the Emerald City by the Winged Monkeys
Days 37-39 - They wait for the Wizard to receive them
Day 40 - Oz receives the party at 9:04 AM - he is exposed as a humbug
Day 41 - The Scarecrow receives his brains, the Tin Woodman his heart, and the
Cowardly Lion his courage
Days 42-44 - "For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz."
Day 45 - "On the fourth day" Oz announces his plans to leave with Dorothy in a balloon
Days 46-48 - "It took three days" to sew the balloon together
Day 49 - Oz departs
Day 50 - Council of the party ("on the morning after the balloon had gone up") - they
decide to visit Glinda
Day 51 - The party leaves for Glinda's palace - night in field
Day 52 - They enter the forest of fighting trees - they enter the China Country - the
Cowardly Lion defeats the monster spider - they cross the hill of the Hammerheads -
Glinda sends Dorothy home
In his Oz books Baum is not always clear about the passage of time, and WIZARD is
not as tightly plotted as other books in the series. This chronology should not be taken
as conclusive. I have had to base it in part on my own perceptions of what goes on in
the story. It is clear, though, that more days pass in WIZARD than in any other Oz book
I know.
Day 1 - Tip begins work on Jack Pumpkinhead
Day 2 - Tip completes Jack - Mombi returns, brings Jack to life - in evening, Tip frees
Jack & runs away; walks all night ("moon and stars shone brightly"; last quarter?)
Day 3 - Tip enchants Sawhorse - party is separated - Jack & Sawhorse arrive in the
Emerald City, where they meet the Scarecrow - Tip meets Gen. Jinjur, enters EC with
Army of Revolt - Scarecrow, Tip, Jack & Sawhorse escape from palace, head to Tin
Woodman's Castle - night along road
Day 4 - Tip's party arrives at the Tin Woodman's Castle
Day 5 - The Tin Woodman joins Tip's party - they leave for the EC - Mombi interferes
with their progress - they meet the Wogglebug - they reach the EC and expell Jinjur
from the palace - they build the Gump and escape, flying all night ("a cloudy sky,
through which the rays of the moon could not penetrate")
Day 6 - The Gump smashes at the Jackdaws' nest - they fight the Jackdaws & the
Gump is repaired - night in nest
Day 7 - The party leaves in the morning - the Scarecrow appeals to Glinda - Glinda tells
the stories of Ozma and the Wizard - night in palace
Day 8 - Glinda summons council and decides to march against the EC
Day 9 - Glinda's army marches against the EC - arrives after nightfall ("by the dim light
of the new moon")
Day 10 - Glinda's army besieges the EC - Glinda demands the surrender of Mombi -
Jinjur invites her to search the city - Tin Woodman picks a rose
Day 11 - Glinda discovers Mombi and defeats her in a sorcerer's battle -
disenchantment of Ozma
Day 12 - Glinda's army takes the EC - capture of Jinjur
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Day 1 - Storm at sea - Dorothy washed off boat on chicken coop
Day 2 - Storm subsides - Billina lays her 1st egg - Dorothy & Billina washed up on Evian
coast - meet Tik-tok - escape Wheelers - imprisoned by Languidere
Day 3 - Ozma & party approach Evna in AM - free Dorothy, Tik-tok, Billina - discussion
of plan to free the royal family of Ev
Day 4 - Party leaves Evna at daybreak - Billina lays her 2nd egg - they enter the Nome
King's dominions - Ozma, Tin Woodman, 26 officers & private begin guesses, which
continue until "after midnight" - Billina falls asleep under Nome King's throne
Day 5 - Early in AM Billina learns of Nome King's power - Tik-tok enchanted - Dorothy
frees Evring - Billina lays her 3rd egg, disenchants remainder of party - Dorothy seizes
Magic Belt - party escapes - Evardo proclaimed King of Ev
Day 6 - Dorothy's party crosses the desert - night with "Munchkin king"
Day 7 - Party meets Jinjur - welcome at Emerald City
"Several weeks" pass before Dorothy leaves Oz for Australia
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Day 1 - Dorothy meets Zeb & Jim around 5 AM - earthquake - descent to Mangaboos &
arrival of the Wizard - the party kills Gwig & picks the Princess
Day 2 - Fire trick before the Mangaboos
Days 3-4 - "Two or three days" pass
Day 5 - Party driven into Black Pit - pass through Valley of Voe - sleep in country of
Gargoyles
Day 6 - Escape from Gargoyles during "night" - the party encounters the Dragonettes -
Ozma uses the Magic Belt at 4:00 PM
Day 7 - Jim meets the Sawhorse - holiday and procession in honor of the Wizard's
return
Day 8 - Festivities continue
Day 9 - On "the third morning after Dorothy's arrival" Ozma misses the piglet - trial of
Eureka begins at 3:00 PM
Day 10 - Dorothy looks in the Magic Picture "the next evening after the trial" - party for
Dorothy and Zeb
Day 11 - Dorothy and Zeb return to their homes in the AM
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Day 1 (8/15) - Dorothy meets the Shaggy Man & Button-Bright - they arrive in Foxville -
Button-Bright is enchanted - night in Foxville
Day 2 (8/16) - The party meets Polychrome - they arrive in Dunkiton - Shaggy
enchanted - night in Dunkiton
Day 3 (8/17) - They meet the Musicker - they escape the Scoodlers - night on edge of
Desert
Day 4 (8/18) - Shaggy summons Johnny Dooit - they cross the Desert - Truth Pond -
Tin Woodman's Castle
Day 5 (8/19) - They meet Jack Pumpkinhead, Cowardly Lion & Hungry Tiger - dinner
with Ozma
Day 6 (8/20) - Guests begin to arrive - banquet in evening
Day 7 (8/21) - Ozma's birthday - departure of guests - Dorothy returns to Kansas during
night
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BEFORE THE ACTION
The Nome King plots to conquer Oz
Henry & Em learn that the farm is to be foreclosed in 30 days - they wait several
days before telling Dorothy
Time passes
Day 1 - Dorothy leaves Kansas permanently for Oz - "About the time Dorothy went to
Ozma" the Nome King makes Guph general
Day 2 - Dorothy assumes rank as Princess of Oz - Henry & Em brought to Oz - they
meet the Cowardly Lion
Days 3-8 - Time passes - perhaps a week, more or less
During this period the Nome King extends his tunnel and Guph visits the
Whimsies and the Growleywogs
Day 9 - Dorothy's party begins a tour of Oz - they visit the Athletic College & Cuttenclips
- Guph visits First & Foremost Phanfasm
Day 10 - Party visits Fuddlecumjig - night under trees - Guph returns to Nome King to
report
Day 11 - Dorothy visits Utensia, Bunbury, Bunnybury - Ozma sees Nome King's tunnel
in Magic Picture
Day 12 - Rigmaroles & Flutterbudgets - they arrive at the Tin Woodman's Castle
Day 13 - Tin Woodman tells Dorothy & party of Nome menace - they visit the
Scarecrow & Jack Pumpkinhead - they arrive at the Emerald City at dusk - the
Scarecrow's plan - The Nome King's allies begin their march to the EC
Day 14 - The Nomes & their allies arrive at daybreak - invaders repelled - Ozma
"closes" tunnel
Day 15 - Glinda seals Oz off by enchantment
Some time later, Baum receives a note from Dorothy
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Day 1 - Ojo and Unc Nunkie eat last bit of bread
Day 2 - Ojo & Unc leave in morning to visit Dr Pipt - arrive at 2 PM - Dr Pipt finishes the
Powder of Life - Ojo mixes Scraps' brains - night with Pipt & Margolotte
Day 3 - After breakfast they bring Scraps to life - Margolotte & Unc petrified - the party
leaves in search of a charm - they leave the blue forest at sundown - night in Voice's
cottage
Day 4 - They meet the Victrola - Foolish Owl & Wise Donkey - Woozy - they find the
Yellow Brick Road - capture & release by Shaggy Man - night in deserted cottage
Day 5 - The party encounters the sliding road - Chiss - they reach the barrier at the
Munchkin/EC border - dinner at farmhouse - Ojo picks the 6-leaf clover - he is arrested
as they enter the EC - Ojo has supper w/Tollydiggle, spends night in jail - Shaggy has
dinner w/Ozma, Wizard, Dorothy & Scarecrow - night in palace
Day 6 - The trial of Ojo - spends afternoon w/Dorothy, night in palace
Day 7 - Reconstituted party spends night at Jack Pumpkinhead's home, "a day's
journey from the Emerald City"
Day 8 - "It was a two-days' journey from Jack Pumpkinhead's house to the edge of the
Quadling Country" - first night in Winkie field ("slept on the broad fields, among the
buttercups and daisies")
Day 9 - "Toward evening of the second day" they meet the Tottenhots - night in
Tottenhot shelter
Day 10 - The party meets Mr Yoop - Toto captures the Hoppers' Champion - Ojo gets
water from dark well - night with lazy Quadling
Day 11 - Morning on Trick River - arrive at Tin Woodman's castle in late PM - night at
castle
Day 12 - The party leaves for the EC - Unc Nunkie & Margolotte released from
enchantment
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Day 1 - Queen Ann Soforth resolves to conquer Oz and begins to gather an army
Day 4 - "Three days later" the Grand Army of Oogaboo departs - Glinda enchants path
Day 6 - They meet the Rak after wandering for "three unhappy days" - Betsy & Hank
washed overboard
Day 7 - Betsy & Hank enter the Rose Kingdom - meet Shaggy Man, pick Rose Princess
- meet Polychrome - discover Tik-Tok in well - meet the Army of Oogaboo - Ruggedo
dumps party down the Great Tube - the party appears before Tititi Hoochoo - night with
Kings & Queens (Betsy & Polychrome with Queen Erma)
Day 8 - Tititi Hoochoo passes sentence on Ruggedo - Betsy's party departs with Quox -
Grand Army of Oogaboo captured & escapes through tunnel in pit - Ruggedo deposed
& Kaliko made king
Day 9 - Quox departs - search for the Metal Forest begins
Days 9-11 - "For three days" their search is unsuccessful
Day 12 - Polychrome meets Ruggedo -they discover the Metal Forest - Ugly One
disenchanted - Poly, Ann, Army, return home - Tik-tok, Shaggy, Brother, Hank, Betsy
go to Emerald City
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Day 1 - Trot & Cap'n Bill caught in whirlpool - overnight in cavern
Day 2 - They meet the Ork - enter the Hole and the Tunnel - walk until night
Day 3 - They start at 9 AM - reach Pessim's Island - Ork eats magic berries - night in
Pessim's shed
Days 3-5 - "For three days" they live on the island
Day 6 - "On the fourth day" Ork suggests carrying Trot & Cap'n Bill to mainland - they
reach Mo - night on mountain with Bumpy Man
Day 7 - Snow overnight - Trot's party meets Button-Bright - they are carried over the
desert to Jinxland - Ork leaves to find Orkland - Trot, Cap'n Bill, & Button-Bright are
separated - Cap'n Bill enchanted - Trot & Button-Bright spend night with Pon -
Scarecrow visits Glinda and begins journey to Jinxland
Day 8 - Scarecrow crosses mountains surrounding Jinxland - Button-Bright gets lost in
early AM - Blinkie enchants Gloria - Scarecrow meets Cap'n Bill, hatches plan to
overthrow Krewl - Button-Bright meets Ork, who plans a rescue - Krewl, Googly-Goo
defeated & Cap'n Bill & Gloria disenchanted
Day 9 - Gloria made Queen - Orks carry Cap'n Bill, Trot, Button-Bright, & Scarecrow to
Oz, and leave - night in Wizard's house
Day 10 - Scarecrow caught in waterfall - night in Wizard's house
Day 11 - Scarecrow restuffed in AM - Dorothy & Betsy arrive at Glinda's c. 4 PM - night
in Glinda's palace
Day 12 - Reception for Trot & Cap'n Bill in Emerald City
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Day 1 - Kittikut shows pearls in Inga - Rinkitink leaves Gilgad for Pingaree
Day 4 - Arrival of Rinkitink & Bilbil "a few days" after Inga first sees pearls
Time passes--"day after day and week after week" (assume a minimum of 3 weeks)
Day 25 - Fog - arrival of invaders from Regos & Coregos in early afternoon
Day 26 - The invaders leave Pingaree - Inga finds Rinkitink, Bilbil - night at lower end of
island
Day 27 - They return to the palace in the AM - fix up a small room
Day 28 - They move the marble from the banquet hall - Inga retrieves the pearls
Day 29 - Inga consults the white pearl - storm in PM
Day 30 - Boat appears on shore in AM - Inga, Rinkitink & Bilbil leave Pingaree
Day 33 - Inga's party arrives at Regos - conquest of King Gos - Dorothy first reads
about Inga in Glinda's Book of Records - Rinkitink throws shoe away in night
Day 34 - Nikobob finds Inga's shoes & defeats Choggenmugger
Day 35 - Queen Cor seizes Rinkitink, Inga - Zella harvests the honey
Day 37 - Zella takes the honey to Coregos - Inga conquers Coregos
Day 38 - Zella guides party in search of mines of Regos - Gos reaches mines in late PM
- Inga's party spends night in boat after fruitless search
Day 39 - Inga invades mines, frees slaves - Gos & Cor take Kitticut, Garee hostage,
flee to Nome Kingdom
Day 40 - Inga begins pursuit of fugitives - rows "hard and steadily for eight days"
Day 46 - Gos & Cor complete their voyage "the morning of the eighth day"
Day 47 - Gos & Cor reach the Nome Kingdom 'the second day of their journey" - Kitticut
& Garee released to Kaliko - Inga reaches the beach
Day 48 - Gos & Cor leave the Nome Kingdom - pass Inga's party en route to Nome
Kingdom - Dorothy sees Inga in Magic Picture - Inga, Rinkitink spend night in Nome
Kingdom
Day 49 - Inga faces the Three Trick Caverns - Dorothy & Wizard arrive - Kittikut &
Garee released
Day 50 - Reception in Emerald City - disenchantment of Bilbil
Inga's party "remained several weeks" in the EC before returning to Pingaree
Several more weeks pass before Pinkerbloo locates Rinkitink - he returns to Gilgad
after 3 days of feasting
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Day 1 - Ugu the Shoemaker climbs the Yips' Mountain at night - steals Magic Dishpan
and all Oz magic that night - kidnaps Ozma
Day 2 - Ugu enchants Ozma - Cayke misses her dishpan and goes to Frogman for help
- the council of Ozma's advisors is summoned
Day 3 - Frogman declares his intention to search for the Magic Dishpan - the search
parties looking for Ozma disperse to the different countries - Toto follows Dorothy -
Dorothy's party spends night in shepherd's cabin
Day 4 - Frogman's party descends halfway down Yip Mountain - Dorothy's party passes
Merry-Go-Round Mountains, Thi - night at edge of Great Orchard
Day 5 - Button-Bright loses himself, eats enchanted peach - night at far side of orchard
- Frogman crosses ditch, meets Wiljon
Day 6 - Dorothy's party visits Herku - night in Czarover's palace
Day 7 - Frogman bathes in Truth Pond ("the very morning when the travelers from the
Emerald City bade farewell to the Czarover") - night on shore of Winkie River
Day 8 - Frogman's party visits Bear Center - two parties spend night on opposite sides
of a hill
Day 9 - The parties join forces - Button-Bright gets lost again - night in "little grove" near
Ugu's castle
Day 10 - They sight the wickerwork castle - Button-Bright is found - they storm the
castle - Dorothy enchants Ugu but he escapes - Ozma is disenchanted
Days 11 to 13 - The remain in the wicker castle, removing all the magical items they find.
Days 14 - They begin the journey to the EC
The river trip to the Emerald City takes "more than a day," and there is a week of
celebration following Ozma's return. Sometime during this period the Tin Woodman and
the Scarecrow discover the Magic Dishpan and it is returned to its owner.
"Weeks later" Dorothy meets the enchanted Ugu, who asks to be forgiven.
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Day 1 - Woot the Wanderer arrives at the Tin Castle
Day 2 - The party leaves the Tin Castle - arrives near Loonville toward evening - night in
open - Dorothy looks in Magic Picture
Day 3 - Woot's party visits the Loons - they cross the Rolling Lands and reach Yoop
Castle - night in Mrs Yoop's outer chamber
Day 4 - Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Woot are enchanted in the AM - they meet the
enchanted Polychrome - at night the Green Monkey slips into the Yoop bedchamber &
releases friends - night in forest
Day 5 - Green Monkey encounters Jaguar in AM - they cross to Munchkin Country and
find Jinjur's house - party disenchanted by Ozma - they are carried by Red Wagon to
Munchkin forest - night "camped underneath the trees"
Day 6 - The party meets the Tin Soldier - they visit the Witch's cottage, then Ku-Klip -
they cross the Invisible Country - night near Swyne's home
Day 7 - They visit Nimmie Amee - Polychrome returns home
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Day 1 - Festival on Mt Munch - Kiki Aru learns the magic word and leaves Oz, visiting 1)
Hiland/Loland; 2) Merryland; 3) Noland, where he spends the night
Day 2 - Kiki Aru travels through Noland, Ix, Ev - he encounters Ruggedo - night in inn -
the Glass Cat tells Cap'n Bill about the Magic Flower
Day 3 - Dorothy wonders what to give Ozma for her birthday - she visits Glinda &
bargains with the Wizard - they leave for the Forest of Gugu - Trot & Cap'n Bill leave to
retrieve Magic Flower - they spend night at the edge of the forest - Kiki Aru & Ruggedo
plot to conquer Oz - they cross the Desert in bird form in the evening
Day 4 - Kiki Aru and Ruggedo consult with Gugu and his counselors - Trot & Cap'n Bill
are caught by the Magic Island & the Glass Cat returns to the Emerald City for help
Day 5 - The Animals' Revolt breaks out - Dorothy & Wizard arrive, are enchanted by
Kiki Aru - arrival of Glass Cat - Wizard learns the magic word - Glass Cat leads party to
rescue Trot & Cap'n Bill - night in Munchkin Country
Day 6 - Glass Cat torments monkeys - the party camps overnight & the monkeys
retaliate
Day 7 - The Glass Cat leaves the party around noon
An unspecified amount of time passes before the party arrives at the Emerald City.
Ozma's birthday is the following month.
August 21 - Ozma's birthday and party
August 22 - Disenchantment of Kiki Aru and Ruggedo
Note on the Glass Cat's trip: The Glass Cat makes the trip from the Magic Isle to the
Forest of Gugu via the Emerald City in less than 24 hours. I can see no evidence in the
text to argue for a longer (or shorter) period of time. Baum comments that she moved
"like a crystal streak," but this would depend on the amount of territory she covered and
the amount of time she spent. A closer look at her trip may provide some more
information.
1) "The day was nearly gone" when Cap'n Bill and Trot crossed to the Magic Island to
get the flower, so it would have been even later when the Glass Cat left for the Emerald
City.
2) Since the Pink Kitten was "curled up in the sunshine" when Bungle arrived at the
palace, it must have been morning--the morning of the following day (Day 5 in the
chronology).
3) Alternatively, if Baum's earlier statement about the day being "nearly gone" is not
taken literally, it might have been the evening before (Day 4 in the chronology).
4) This would dovetail nicely with Toto's comment about Dorothy's party having left
"yesterday"; but Toto also says that Dorothy was going "to the Great Forest in the
_Munchkin_ Country" (emphasis mine). He may have been confused; or Baum (or his
editor) may have made an error here. I have assigned Dorothy's departure to the
previous day (Day 3) on the grounds of Dorothy's statement to the Wizard, "Let's leave
now."
5) At any rate, whether Bungle arrived at the EC in the evening of Day 4 or the morning
of Day 5, by late morning of Day 5, she had arrived in the Forest of Gugu.
So in the time between the end of Day 4 and the middle of Day 5 Bungle had traveled
the same distances that Trot and Cap'n Bill had traveled and Dorothy and the Wizard
had traveled--which included a full day of travel by both parties, plus the time the Glass
Cat spent in the EC--in the period of less than a day. She must have been traveling
more than twice as fast than both of the parties for an extended length of time in order
to get to the Forest of Gugu by midday.
Based on the IWOC maps and the dimensions of Oz given in Dave Hardenbrook's FAQ
(and the alternative suggested by David Hulan), I can't see that Bungle traveled less
than 60-80 miles over the whole trip--possibly more (100-120). Assuming that she left
the Magic Island around 8 PM and arrived in the EC around 7 AM, then left for the
Forest of Gugu around 8 AM and arrived there around 12 PM (purely arbitrary numbers),
this would mean that she was traveling between 3 1/3 and 8 miles per hour--perfectly
doable, but hardly the "crystal streak" described by Baum.
This leaves us with several possibilities (assuming that the text is correct as printed):
1) Bungle's entire trip may have been quite a bit larger; but if that is the case, I think we
need to argue that Oz itself is larger than the dimensions we've set for it in previous
discussions.
2) The timing may be off--Bungle may have spent more time in the EC, or may have
stopped at some point during the night or the following morning (unlikely--Baum says
that she left the palace "without stopping to ask any more questions")
3) Something else may be going on that Baum either didn't know or wasn't interested in
repeating.
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Day 1 - Dorothy learns of impending war between Flatheads and Skeezers
Day 2 - Ozma and Dorothy travel north in Red Wagon - they meet the Spiders & cross
the Mist Valley - night on plain
Day 3 - Ozma & Dorothy meet the Su-Dic & escape - they enter the Skeezers' magic
island and are made captive by Queen Coo-ee-oh - night in Lady Aurex's house
Day 4 - The Island is submerged - Coo-ee-oh is enchanted by Su-Dic - Flatheads return
to Mountain & Dorothy begins search for fishes
Day 5 - Glinda's alarm bell rings in the morning & she summons Ozma's counselors at
evening - at night, Ervic meets fishes & travels to Reera's house
Day 6 - Ervic enters Reera's house just after dawn - he outwits Reera & the 3 Adepts
are disenchanted - Glinda & party travel to Skeezer Lake - set up camp
Day 7 - Glinda joined by Adepts
Day 8 - The Island is raised and Aurex & Ervic are established in power
Day 9 - The Flatheads are defeated
During "the next few days" Glinda & Adepts change Flatheads into normal people.
Note: the text of GLINDA says that the Skeezers in the boat with Ervic searched for him
for "three days." I assume that this is a mistake on Baum's part (or perhaps his editor's).
If we try to fit three days into the schedule (rather than one, as above) then Ervic has to
have an extra day of travel with the Adepts. I refuse to speculate on why this might be
the case.
I've also had to insert an extra day (not accounted for in the text) between the time of
Coo-ee-oh's enchantment and Ervic's meeting with the 3 Adepts. Baum states that
Ervic caught the fishes after Glinda last looked in the Book of Records--in other words,
after the alarm bell had sounded. The only way to work this that I know of, given the
days and nights listed in the text, is to move Ervic's trip to the night after Glinda's alarm
rings.
This is not one of Baum's tighter plots, chronologically speaking.
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Day 1 - Scarecrow departs EC in late evening
Day 2 - Scarecrow crosses Munchkin River; reaches beanpole late evening ("by the
second evening"); slides down beanpole - Dorothy & Lion depart EC ("the morning after
the party"); reach Scarecrow's tower (Winkie country) by mid-morning; night in front of
Pokes
Day 3 - Scarecrow (Chang Wang Woe) resumes throne of the Silver Islands - Dorothy
& Lion meet Sir Hokus; party meets Candy Giant; night in Fix City
Day 4 - Dorothy's party takes road from Fix City
Day 5 - Scarecrow defeats King of the Golden Islands ("Two days had passed")
Day 6 - Dorothy's party meets the deaf shepherd ("on the second day" after leaving Fix
City)
Day 7 - Return of Honorable Offspring ("the second morning after the great victory");
Scarecrow & Happy Toko chained to piller at night - Dorothy's party meets Comfortable
Camel & Doubtful Dromedary ("for three days they had wandered"); reunited with
Scarecrow
Day 8 - Abdication of Chang Wang Woe
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Day 1 - Pompa's 18th birthday party in the morning (the Pumperdinkians spend "an
anxious afternoon and evening") - Kabumpo & Pompa escape at night - Ruggedo
finishes 6th rock ("on the same night that Prince Pompa and Kabumpo disappeared
from Pumperdink") & discovers Glegg's Mixed Magic
Day 2 - Kabumpo & Pompa travel through Rith Metic, reach Illumi Nation - Ruggedo
locks up Wag in morning, opens Glegg's box at evening - Dorothy's reception "on the
evening after Ruggedo's strange discovery of the mixed magic" - Ruggedo impales
Ozma's castle and heads for Ev, reaching it during night - Sand Man visits the Palace
the same night, puts Ruggedo, residents to sleep
Day 3 - Soldier with the Green Whiskers discovers missing palace after breakfast,
summons Glinda - Wag & Peg depart late at night - Kabumpo & Pompa spend day in
Illumi Nation, reach Soup Sea before moonrise - Kabumpo travels through the night
Day 4 - Kabumpo & Pompa arrive at Emerald City at dawn, meet Glinda ("After studying
a whole day and night in her magic books, Glinda had returned to the Emerald City to
try to perfect her plan for rescuing Ozma.") - they catch up with Wag & Peg -
adventures with Twigs, Runaway Country - Kabumpo's party arrives in Ev in afternoon
(the Scarecrow indicates that the Palace inhabitants have been asleep for two days) -
leave for Sun Top Mountain at dusk ("just one star twinkled cheerily in the sky") - arrive
at Sun Top Mountain after moonrise
Day 5 - Peg & Pompa travel to EC
Note: There are several overnight stops included in this summary that are not directly
accounted for in the text. In order to match the times of Ruggedo's actions and those of
Glinda with Kabumpo's & Wag's journeys, I have to assume that Kabumpo & Pompa
spend a whole day in Illumi Nation, and that Wag and Peg similarly spend a whole day
in Wag's burrow after Ruggedo's growth.
This could conceivably be covered in the text (Kabumpo spends some time
unconscious in Illumi Nation: "How long he lay in an unconscious state the Elegant
Elephant never knew"; and "For a long time after the terrific bang following Ruggedo's
final expansion, Wag and Peg Amy had been too stunned to even move"--and, when
Wag and Peg finally leave, they go at night over the head of the Soldier with the Green
Whiskers. If they'd left the same night as Ruggedo, the Soldier would not have been
there to see them leave--he discovered that the palace was missing right after breakfast
on the morning following Ruggedo's escape).
I would also like to include at least one overnight journey on the Runaway Country,
either on the way to Ev or on the way to Sun Top Mountain, or possibly both (partly to
round out the seven days mentioned in Glegg's scroll and partly in order to make the
travelling times more meaningful), but I can't justify this based on the existing text.
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Day 1 - Mustapha demands Cowardly Lion - Notta & Bob arrive in Mudge - night in
forest
Day 2 - Lion begins journey at daybreak - Notta & Bob travel through Doorways - Lion
meets woodcutters, leaves them "late in the afternoon," travels through night
Day 3 - Lion meets Notta & Bob at daybreak - travel to Un during early afternoon -
attacks by Uns during night
Day 4 - Party meets Nickadoodle before dawn - escape in Flyaboutabus in morning -
caught by Crunch in afternoon - party splits: Notta, Bob, & Snorer spend night in
Fiddlestick Forest - Crunch & Lion travel through night
Day 5 - Notta, Bob & Snorer meet Ozma's court at breakfast - Crunch, Lion arrive in
Mudge when "the sun was high" - Lion disenchanted in afternoon
Note: The above reflects the chronology as given in the text. Despite Mustapha's giving
Notta three days' rations to reach the EC, the trip actually takes four whole days and
possibly part of a fifth. Thompson states in Chapter 19 that "Notta started to tell the
history of his three amazing days in Oz," but this may mean that the day he spends in
Un didn't count. Un, being a Skyle, may not be considered part of Oz.
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Day 1 - Fumbo loses his head
Day 2 - Grampa & Tatters start on expedition at 8 AM - meet Bill at evening, bandits at
night - night in forest - "On the same bright morning that Grampa and Tatters started
from Ragbad," Gorba kidnaps Pretty Good from Perhaps City - Prophecy of Abrog ("in
four days a monster shall marry the Princess") - Percy Vere meets Dorothy - night in
forest
Day 3 - Grampa & Tatters escape robbers before dawn - meet Urtha in garden, leave
garden at night- Dorothy & Percy breakfast in woodcutter's cottage, taken by
washerwomen
Day 4 - Grampa's party visits Fire Island & escapes through Blazes - night on lava
island
Day 5 - Grampa's party visits Iso Poso - flight to Oz - discover Fumbo's head - "The two
days Grampa and his little party had been adventuring in the wizard's garden, on Fire
Island and Isa Poso, Dorothy, Toto and the Forgetful Poet had spent as prisoners on
Monday Mountain" - Dorothy, Toto & Percy escape washerwomen - the two parties
meet - camp in field at night
Day 6 - The party meets the Playfellows - Urtha escapes to Maybe Mountain - Urtha
married to Tatters ("it was the fourth day mentioned in Abrog's prophecy"),
disenchanted - marriage celebration in Ragbad late into night
Day 7 - "Not until after the loud crows of Bill announced the rising of the sun did the
party break up"
Day 8 - "After luncheon the next day" Dorothy, Toto, Peer Haps & Percy return to their
homes
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Day 1 - Pajuka & Mombi meet again in afternoon - Snip kidnaped - night in forest
General Whiffenpuff leaves for Emerald City at night
Day 2 - Snip & party encounter weenix around noon, meet Hoopers, cross sea - Catty
Corners - they travel at night until Mombi throws Snip down well
Day 3 - Snip arrives in Blankenburg - he is awakened by Blanks about 9 AM - he meets
Tora and the golden feather flies off - Dorothy leaves Perhaps City ("On the same bright
morning that the golden goose feather had come flashing down into Ozma's garden") -
she visits America, brings Humpy to life, returns, meets Kabumpo - Ozma left a
message by Pajuka's feather at breakfast - she & court wished to Morrow - Dorothy's &
Snip's parties meet around noon - rendezvous (with Mombi & Pajuka) at Palace in
afternoon - Ozma & Co. arrive in EC two hours after Kabumpo's party - Pastoria
disenchanted - abdication
Day 4 - Parade in honor of the King of Oz - Mombi extinguished - Snip leaves for
Kimbaloo with General Whiffenpuff, Invisible Cook & Kabumpo after lunch
Note: According to the text, Pajuka's penfeather does not actually leave Snip's grasp
until the same morning that Snip arrives in Blankenburg. Since the text states that "it
was morning and nearly nine o'clock" before Snip woke up in Blankenburg and lost the
feather, we must assume that Ozma breakfasted rather late that day.
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Day 1 - Betsy's birthday - hide-and-seek game begins at dusk - Ippty leaves to fetch the
Hungry Tiger "as it was growing dark" - they return to Rash at night & HT spends night
in palace apartment - Ippty & Irasha plot until "long after midnight"
Day 2 - Hungry Tiger locked in jail yard in morning - meets singer "toward evening" &
hides him at moonrise - night in jail yard
Day 3 - Betsy meets Carter Green before breakfast - they arrive in Rash in AM and
meet Tiger - barber thrown to Tiger in afternoon - Reddy thrown to Tiger "as the first
stars twinkled out" - they escape through tunnel - night in fields of down - Ozma
kidnaped by Atmos Fere after breakfast
Day 4 - Betsy's party has breakfast in Down Town - visit Gnome King's cavern for lunch
- exit via Fire Fall - Tiger taken by Giants - night by Immense City's walls
Day 5 - Reddy enters Immense City after breakfast - rescues Hungry Tiger at night -
they leave Immense City at midnight ("just as the clock tolled twelve") - Ozma punctures
Atmos with a pin - they are rescued by Rusty Ore, caught in storm
Day 6 - Two parties meet in AM - conquest of Rash - return to Oz
Note: There's a night missing in Ozma's travels with Atmos Fere. She spends two days
in the air with him (the day Betsy meets Carter and the day she visits Down Town and
Kaliko) and sticks Atmos with a pin on the third day. There's no mention in the text that
she spends a night either with Rusty Ore or with Atmos on the ground, but in order to
make her rendezvous with Betsy's party come out right, I assume that the storm lasted
all night.
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Day 1 - Queen Cross Patch goes to pieces in AM - Quilties go in search of new ruler,
arrive in Emerald City in late afternoon - Scraps becomes Queen of the Quilties - Peter
kidnaped by Balloon Bird - drops in on Ruggedo at evening ("the sun was sinking in the
west") - escape after seaquake - night on Blunderoo's ship
Day 2 - Ozma leaves EC to spend night with Glinda - Scraps forced to work all day,
meets Grumpy at dinner time - Peter, Ruggedo discover Polacky's treasure, magic
implements of Soob the Sorcerer - Ruggedo deposes Kaliko at noon - Peter & Ruggedo
march to desert & cross it at lunchtime - they meet Kuma Party in evening ("it's growing
dark") - walk at night - Ruggedo & Peter arrive in Patch - cloak takes Ruggedo to
Zamagoochie - Ruggedo imprisoned by Wumbo - Scraps, Grumpy & Peter plot to
escape - night in Patch palace
Day 3 - Scraps & party escape with help from Kuma - visit Suds, Bewilderness - meet
Ozwold - Tune Town - Ruggedo escapes from Wumbo in early morning - makes
mischief in EC - Wumbo receives message from Kuma around noon, instructs him to
send his arm to EC to warn Ozma & hold Ruggedo - Ozma returns with Magic Belt at 3
PM - Scraps' party returns to EC at same time - Ruggedo foiled at Emerald City by
Silence Stone
Day 4 - Peter is made a Prince of Oz - returns home - Wizard discovers the true Queen
of Patch
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Day 1 - Quiberon demands a mortal maiden in AM (a "calm and sunny morning") - at
night (after "the great silver bells in the sapphire tower had tolled ten" and "when the
moon is high") Philador is carried off by the Grand Mo-Gull, and Akbar picks the Golden
Pear - Benny comes to life in Boston ("it was a warm starry evening in May") - Tattypoo
falls through the witch's window ("on the same evening Philador and Akbar flew off from
the Ozure Isles") - Philador spends remainder of night in witch's hut
Day 2 - Philador releases Herby, begins trip South, arriving at Up Town in time for lunch
- Benny lands in Oz near Emerald City, meets Scarecrow, Trot, is carried off by Akbar,
arrives Quiberon's cave around noon - after lunch, Philador, Herby & High Boy head
south - Benny's party escapes from Quiberon, Cave City, Roundabouties, in the
afternoon, meet Philador's party in Munchkin Country (High Boy predicts that they will
arrive at the Emerald City "in time for tea") - arrive EC late evening ("it was night and
only a few stars twinkled in the sky"). Queen Orin returns to Sapphire City, is attacked
by Quiberon ("on the same evening that Trot and her companions were arriving in the
Emerald City" and "her jeweled crown glittered and flashed in the star light"), rescued
by Akbar. Quiberon stopped by Wizard - explanations until late at night - feast begins
"long past midnight.
Day 3 - "Not until the silver bells in the castle tower tolled ten did anyone above stairs
stir from his silken couch" - Grand tour of Sapphire City - Wizard & Ozma undo as much
of Mombi's mischief as possible - return to EC in time for lunch ("It was noon time when
they dropped down lightly in the gardens of Ozma's castle.")
Cheeriobed, Orin & Philador remain in the EC for "ten days."
Note: The text of GIANT HORSE compresses the action into a very small amount of
time, and the characters do a lot of traveling. The text says that "it had taken the
golden wings nearly nine hours to carry Akbar to the Emerald City" and that it took them
"scarcely five to bring him back." Thompson places Akbar's arrival in the Ozure Isles at
"a little after noon." That means that Benny and the Scarecrow met Trot around 7 AM
(day 2 of the chronology) and that Akbar left the Ozure Isles a little after 10 PM the
previous night. No times are given after this point until after the parties are united and
High Boy crosses the river (Chapter 15--a branch of the Munchkin River, according to
the IWOC map of Oz). There it's noted that the time is "late afternoon ... and the sun
[was] sinking lower and lower behind the hills." By the time Trot sights the EC, "it was
night and only a few stars twinkled in the sky." It takes them less than an hour to reach
the city from that point, and on their arrival Thompson says, "It was still fairly early."
According to the WORLD ALMANAC, an area between 30 and 40 degrees north
latitude gets between 12 and a quarter and 14 and three-quarters hours of daylight
(measured from sunrise to sunset) during the month of May. (I am assuming that Oz
has a latitude corresponding to that of most of the midwestern United States.) Nightfall
in May ranges between about 6:40 at the beginning of the month to about 7:45 at the
end of the month. That would put Trot's sighting of the Emerald City's glow between 7
and 8 o'clock, and her arrival at the EC between 8 and 9 o'clock--in accordance with
Thompson's statement that "it was still fairly early." Queen Orin's arrival in the Sapphire
City would have been about the same time (the moon had apparently not yet risen,
since the star light on her crown is the only light mentioned).
Now--can this be reconciled with (a) Akbar's flight and Trot & Philador's return journey;
and (b) the projected size of Oz? Not with any great exactitude, unfortunately. Was the
difference in Akbar's flight times because he had to navigate by sight (difficult in the
dark) or because he had a strong tailwind coming back from the EC? (The text
describes the wind "rushing down [Trot's] throat about a mile a minute," but this is
probably hyperbole on Thompson's part. Otherwise Akbar would have traveled almost
300 air miles, which is far larger than most estimates of Oz's size.) In order for Philador
and Trot to meet, two things must have happened: High Boy must have turned far east
out of the Gilliken Mountains (possible, since none of the party were sure where the
Emerald City was) and Trot's party must had traveled a fair number of miles after sliding
off the Roundabouties' roof. The two parties must have rendezvoused no later than
3:00, and High Boy must really have been traveling in order to reach the EC by 8:00--
perhaps as fast as the Sawhorse.
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Day 1 - Peter returns to Oz in AM (a Saturday - season is "summer") - meets Jack
Pumpkinhead - lunch at Goody Shop - visits Scare City, frees Snif - travel to Bourne -
dinner and camp outside Baffleburg at night ("Jack watched the sun sink down behind
the grim red mountains") - Belfaygor grows beard in AM - Mogodore kidnaps Shirley
Sunshine, intending to marry her next morning - at night ("while Peter and his friends
rested in their hidden cave") Mogodore plots to conquer the Emerald City
Day 2 - Peter's party crosses to Baffleburg Sunday AM & they are captured by
Mogodore - Mogodore begins march to EC to conquer Oz, reaching and capturing it in
late afternoon/early evening (at dusk - "that fine hour before dinner") - Peter's party
retrieves the forbidden flagon ("The search for the flagon had taken just an hour"),
escapes from Baffleburg in AM - Peter, Belfayor, & Snif captured by sack - Jack visits
Jinnicky, returns to EC & frees Ozites after dark ("Dusk turned into darkness, lights
shone from every room in the palace") - marriage of Belfaygor & Shirley Sunshine -
wedding feast continues all night ("not until daybreak did anyone think of retiring")
Day 3 - Festivities continue all day (Monday) - Belfaygor & Shirley leave at lunchtime
("at noon they rode off on the Sawhorse") - Fraid Cats & Statues returned to normal -
Belfaygor & band returned to Baffleburg in late afternoon - Peter returns home
Note: The distance between Bourne and the EC is never determined exactly. Peter's
party has lunch on the way and are interrupted at its conclusion by the denizens of
Swing City. Peter says "It must be nearly four o'clock" by the time they have escaped
Swing City and gotten back underway, and they overtake Mogodore shortly afterwards.
Snif say that it "will not take longer than an hour to fly to the capitol" from Baffleburg,
but it is not clear how he knows this--and, based on the timing of his trip (they are
already in flight by noon but are not captured by the sack until around 3:45-4:00), the
estimate is probably off. Mogodore arrives in the EC at sunset (perhaps as late as 8:30
if the season is really summer), giving him a 9 to 11 hour trip between Bourne and the
capitol. (Horses can't travel more than about 12 mph, and they can't keep it up for very
long. This gives a maximum distance of 120-132 miles, with 60-75 being perhaps more
realistic.) If this is the case then Jack must spend almost four hours in the Red Jinn's
domain (from about 4:00 to 8:00) before being summoned to appear before Mogodore.
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Day 1 (Thursday) - Chinda discovers Comfortable Camel in Ozma's stables - expedition
prepared
Day 2 (Friday) - Tuzzle begins trip to Emerald City "at dawn" - in evening, Sir Hokus
resolves to go on a quest ("Three days before Monday, the day set by Dorothy for the
quest") - he and Camy leave at night
Day 3 (Saturday) - Sir Hokus awakens "about six," arrives in Marshland "about noon";
rescued by Ploppa (they proceed into the marsh "for nearly an hour") - meets Camy in
evening ("it was almost dark") - night on flying field - Tuzzle arrives at EC "a little before
sundown on the second evening" (and "the day after Sir Hokus had started upon his
quest") - departs the same night - Wizard announces completion of searchlight at
dinner that night - Speedy takes off in the Skyrocket
Day 4 (Sunday) - Sir Hokus & Camy awake about an hour before dawn & are thrown off
the flying field "as the sun came up" - they enter the castle of Corumbia & "after an
hour's tramp" through the woods they disenchant Peter Pun - Speedy arrives in
Subterranea, disenchants Marygolden, visits Quick City - Camy camel-napped by
Tuzzle in AM (shortly after Peter Pun's disenchantment) - Speedy disenchants
Stampedro - Speedy's party meets Hokus's party (in late morning or early afternoon) -
enter Samandra "before the last of the sun's rays had faded from the sky" & encounter
Sultan - return to Stampedro's horse chestnut after moonrise ("Dusk had deepened into
night, and long afterward Speedy remembered that thrilling gallop through the shadowy
forest with only the faint moonlight and an occasional star to show them a path between
the trees") - disenchantment of court of Corumbia
Day 5 (Monday) - Marygolden & Confido join Sir Hokus & Speedy at breakfast at 9:00
AM ("just one hour to ten") - Disenchantment of Corum, Prince of Corumbia at 10:00
AM - arrive in Corabia around noon ("after a sharp two-hour gallop") - Corabians
released from enchantment - Ozma & Dorothy arrive, disarm Sultan
Day 6 (Tuesday) - Marriage of Marygolden - Speedy returns home
Note: The timing of Speedy's trip in the Skyrocket is vague. I assume that Speedy was
unconscious all night ("How long or how far he traveled in this helpless condition he
never did discover") and awoke early the next morning (there is a sun shower while he
is in Subterranea). This lets him disenchant Marygolden early in the day and allows
time for traveling in the Parachuter and the adventures in Quick City before the
rendezvous with Hokus and Peter Pun around noon or a little after.
The marriage of Sir Hokus and Marygolden is solemnized "at high noon," according to
the text. If this is true, then the marriage must take place on the day after the
disenchantment of the Corabians (Tuesday, the sixth day of the chronology), even
though there is no mention of an intervening night in the text. The disenchantment of
Corum (a major plot point) is at 10:00 AM and if the Yellow Knight takes two hours to
travel to Corabia on Stampedro, then there is no way he could have disenchanted all
the Corabians and Princess Marygolden in time to marry her by "high noon." An
alternative interpretation is that Thompson's interpolation of the "two-hour gallop" is
incorrect; a one-hour gallop might have left enough time for the disenchantments, the
disarming of the Sultan, and the marriage of Marygolden.
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BEFORE THE ACTION
Ruggedo becomes king of Menankypoo in AM - sleeps for 3 1/2 days
Pirates desert Samuel Salt
Time passes -
Day 1 - Ruggedo discovers Conjurer's Cave in AM ("One morning, after a particularly
long walk"), recovers voice, meets Clocker ("exactly five minutes before twelve") -
Ruggedo leaves cave after 12:15 - pirates arrive, raid Menankypoo - Ruggedo sees
pirates' arrival ("their scimitars flashing wickedly in the afternoon sunshine"), their
conquest of Menankypoo ("It was almost dark when the pirates reappeared"), returns to
cave at night ("the moon had come up bright and full" and Ruggedo finishes his speech
to Clocker at 10:10 PM) - Ruggedo and Clocker face pirates & Ruggedo is elected
chief - Ato deserted by Octagon Islanders - Samuel Salt & Peter arrive - Crescent Moon
departs Octagon Isle toward evening ("flying under that great cloud of canvas straight
toward the setting sun")
Day 2 - Ruggedo cows the pirates in AM ("the morning after the buccaneers had made
him chief") - arrival of Octagon Islanders bolsters Ruggedo's army ("it was exactly three
o'clock") - Peter, Samuel, Ato & Roger ("all night and all morning" the Crescent Moon
traveled under full sail) conquer Shell City in afternoon (the island, on their arrival,
glitters "in the noonday sun")
At least 2 days pass ("No land had been sighted for two days"), perhaps longer (since
the crew of the Crescent Moon has nearly finished the food taken from Shell Island)
Day 5 - Crescent Moon encounters the No Bodies & Bananny Goat
Day 6 - Breakfast nearly sinks Crescent Moon - meet Duke of Dork & Peter frees
Pigasus in AM - encounter Snow Island - at Mount Up by late evening
Day 7 - Crescent Moon becalmed
Day 8 - Ruggedo's army leaves to conquer EC in AM - Peter goes ashore on Mount Up
"soon after the noon meal on the second day," frees Og in afternoon - Crescent Moon
driven to Ev - Peter heads to Oz to stop Ruggedo, followed by Samuel & crew (Peter
arrives and is stopped at 6:00) - Ruggedo captured by Salt & crew at 6:15 - feasting
and merrymaking continues until "long past midnight"
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Day 1 - Randy begins trials - Randy caught stealing grapes in AM (Kabumpo is
enjoying his "morning nap") - Kabumpo takes him as a servant
Day 7 - Royal Family of Pumperdink enchanted at dinner ("you've been here only a
week") - Kabumpo escapes late at night/early morning ("as the great clock in the tower
tolled one," and the night was "dark and moonless")
Day 8 - Amethyst ball flashes once (on a "bright May morning" - Hoochafoo notes that it
has been "eight days" since Randy started his trials) - Kabumpo & Randy encounter
Nishibis/Faleero, meet the Soothsayer, visit River Road "about noon," continue to
Torpedo Town, Stair Way, Delves - escape at evening (as "the sun was sinking behind
the purple hills"), meet Nandywog - dinner & night at Nandywog's castle
Day 9 - Breakfast with Nandywog, visit Squeegees - arrive in Quadling country ("in an
hour they passed under the crimson arch leading into the Red Land of Oz") - Guide
Post Man takes them to Ev ("Just ten minutes after they left the Quadling Country") -
Jinnicky joins party - they reach the Deadly Desert & cross after storm on Polychrome's
rainbow - Randy overcomes the Combinoceros before sunset ("the sun's going down") -
party captured by Double Men ("the last rays of the setting sun touched the castle
towers and golden roofs" of Double Up) - Randy spends night in cellar - General
Quakes leaves for Emerald City
Day 10 - Jinnicky releases Kabumpo & Randy in early morning - they cross Winkie
River & enter Gilliken territory around 3 PM - meet Ozwoz - General Quakes spends
night in EC
Day 11 - Breakfast with Ozwoz - return to Pumperdink "a little after noon" - Jonwan
captures Faleero - Ozma & Wizard arrive - Jinnicky & Randy reach Faleero's hut "after
an hour or so" - they liberate the royal family - royal party arrives in Pumperdink late in
the afternoon ("it was almost night") - Randy completes tasks & is named king of
Regalia - festivities continue until early morning ("the clock in the great tower had tolled
two")
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Day 1 - Ojo taken by gypsies in late afternoon/early evening ("rather too late to play
outdoors and rather too early for supper"), meets Snufferbux - night in wagon - Unc
Nunkie reports to Ozma at dinner & they look in Magic Picture
Day 2 - Dorothy, Cowardly Lion & Scraps leave at 4 AM - they arrive on the Rolling
Road & Dickseyland - Reachard's hand leads Dorothy's party to Moojer Mountain
("although the mountain at first glance had seemed quite near, it took them all morning
and part of the afternoon to reach the base") - they nap before ascending the mountain
("when she opened her eyes it was night, and the whole sky was bright with stars") -
they are enchanted by Mooj - Ojo rescued by Realbad & bandits in AM (after breakfast)
- he summons Opodok in the night & he, Snufferbux & Realbad are marooned on
Crystal Mountain - Ozma, Unc Nunkie & Scarecrow arrive at Glinda's palace ("about the
time Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, and Scraps were leaving Dicksy Land")
Day 3 - Ojo's party visits frozen city - Ojo & Snufferbux encounter Snoctorotomus ("the
sun was still high") - they are reunited with Realbad & visit Tappy Town, leaving when
"it was quite late and growing dark" - night on plain - Realbad reforms during night
Day 4 - Fog in morning - Realbad encounters Ann Gora - they visit Unicorners -
Snufferbux overpowers Realbad - Ojo & Snufferbux meet Elevator Man, Ojo is taken by
Mooj - Roganda & Realbad arrive, confront Mooj - Ozma, Wizard, Unc Nunkie arrive,
pick up Dorothy's party, leave for Seebania - Mooj neutralized - disenchantments,
reunitements all around ("it was long after one o'clock")
Day 5 - Celebration in Robber's Cave "till long shadows fell over the spruce trees and
fires and candles had to be lighted" - Ozma's party leaves for EC - night in cave
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Day 1 - Speedy & Uncle Billy arrive at Professor Sanderson's camp in PM ("it was long
past noon") - Speedy & Terrybubble explode out of Yellowstone ("just an hour before
sunset") - Sizzeroo runs into Loxo shortly before sunset ("the first evening star is
directly over Your Majesty's head") - Speedy & Terrybubble arrive on Umbrella Island
("now it was night") - Councilor’s meeting lasts until nearly sunrise ("we still have two
months, thirty days, twelve hours and seven minutes")
Day 2 - Bamboula arranges parade ("by nine o'clock ... Umbrellians stood impatiently
awaiting the signal to start") - they discover Speedy & Terrybubble - Kachewka hatches
plot before they return to palace for lunch - Speedy & Terrybubble spend early
afternoon with Gureeda - Umbrella Island crashes between Roaraway & Noraway
Islands - Speedy negotiates with Radj - swims to Roaraway at night & sinks water gun
Day 3 - Waddy wakes Speedy at 9:30 AM - he makes Speedy assistant wizard that
morning
Time passes
Day 7 - "Several days had passed since Speedy's exciting swim to Roaraway"- Speedy
finds Sizzeroo crying in the garden - that night, Terrybubble learns of Kachewka's plan
(season is spring; the windows are open at night "to admit the soft May breezes") -
Terrybubble plots with Pansy & carries Gureeda & Speedy off - remainder of night in
cave
Day 8 - Loxo captures Speedy & Gureeda in AM - Waddy completes anti-giant formula
after working all night ("The last star had twinkled out, and under the eaves the birds
were beginning to twitter about another day") - Waddy, Bamboula & Sizzeroo descend
on Dorothy, Ozma at breakfast ("The morning was so clear and bright that Ozma and
Dorothy were having breakfast in the Royal gardens") - rescue Speedy, Gureeda about
noon - party in evening ("lasted five hours and eight hundred miles") - Ozma sends
Speedy home
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Day 1 - Skamperoo obtains first emerald necklace
Day 3 - Matiah delivered to Skamperoo "as the afternoon of the second day drew to a
close" - Chalk arrives - Jo King and High Boy consult - Dorothy and the Scarecrow plan
the celebration of discovery of Oz by mortals
Day 4 - Skamperoo decides to conquer Oz in AM ("just as the castle clock tolled
seven") - he makes Pinny Penny king, and Pinny Penny banishes Matiah - Matiah
arrives at Deadly Desert at "nightfall" - first day of the great celebration (visitors begin to
arrive "shortly after noon" and festivities continue until "the sun had begun to slip down
behind the treetops") - celebration interrupted during Grand Banquet & Ozma, Wizard,
Jinnicky, rulers of 4 countries disappear - Dorothy & Pigasus flee to Winkie country in
evening, flying for "several hours" - night in summer house - Banquet lasts "till long after
three o'clock"
Day 5 - Skamperoo & Chalk breakfast in garden ("it was still fairly early") - second day
of great festival, including circus, picnic, fireworks - Matiah steals necklaces at night -
Dorothy & Pigasus cross Winkie River at noon, blunder into Black Forest - afternoon
and dinner with Gloma - they are wished to Ev "as the black banjo clock in the corner of
the hall struck a musical ten" - night in Kaliko's chambers
Day 6 - Skamperoo misses necklaces before breakfast - Matiah hides in sub-basement
- Kaliko welcomes Dot, Pigasus after breakfast - directs travelers, offers them limited
assistance - Dorothy & Pigasus fly all day "with only a short pause for lunch" - arrive at
Dooners in time for supper, meet Dooners at night - visit Bitty Bit after escaping from
Dooners, night in tower
Day 7 - Dot & Piggins breakfast with Bitty Bit - they travel to EC, arriving "just as the soft
musical gong sounded the call for luncheon" - Skamperoo & Chalk negotiate - Ozites
restored - Skamperoo returns to Skampavia
Day 8 - Dorothy tells Ozma the secret of the wishing emeralds at "the end of the second
day"
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Day 1 - Crescent Moon arrives at Octagon Island "one morning" - departs again before
evening ("seven bells," according to Roger; so either 3:30 or 7:30 PM)
Day 2 - They meet the Lavalanders in AM ("Morning found the Crescent Moon forging
ahead with a stiff breeze") - receive Sally in evening, shortly before 5:30 (Ato says "It's
three bells and time to stir up the food," while "Samuel strode happily along the deck,
stopping to light the red lamps on the port and the green lights on the starboard") -
Roger plots position of Volcano Island in evening ("There was a tiny crescent moon
sliding down the sky"; Roger places the island "'Bout ... sixty leagues from Octagon
Island") - Samuel stands first watch with Sally, beginning at 8:00 ("by eight bells the
King and the Read Bird were sleeping soundly and Samuel Salt had the ship to
himself"), lasting until 12:00 ("Not until midnight when he roused Ato could he bear to
put Sally back")
Day 3 - Roger sights Patrippany Island "while Ato was cooking breakfast" - they enter
the Bigginlittle River at breakfast time - meet Nikobo, rescue Tandy - set sail again in
evening with the tide - Roger discovers Tandy's talent for drawing at 12:00 ("When
Roger, on first watch, called out eight bells")
Day 4 - Tandy begins to emerge from sulks in AM ("The day was bright and breezy") -
encounter with Sea Serpent
Some time passes - probably several weeks (in order to give Tandy time to acclimatize)
- "The days that followed always seemed to Tandy the happiest he had known."
Day 24 - Samuel and Tandy inspect the collection
Day 25 - Crescent Moon arrives at Peakenspire Island - tour with Alberif in PM ("of his
many experiences Tandy always remembered best the afternoon spent on
Peakenspire") - fog late in the day ("The evening had blown up raw and cold")
Day 26 - Tandy stands morning watch beginning at 4:00 - they encounter the Sea
Forest in early morning - depart late in PM ("Samuel did not get his ship underway till
late afternoon")
Day 27 - They encounter the Narwhal
Day 28 - Samuel Salt in Seeweegia in AM - storm at sea
Day 29 - The Crescent Moon rides out the storm, "coming, toward morning, into quiet
waters at last." They conquer Ozamaland by dinnertime
A "whole week" passes before the Crescent Moon leaves Ozamaland.
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Day 1 - Glinda's Record Book disappears
Day 2 - Wutz's agent steals Ruggedo, Magic Picture
Day 10 - In "late afternoon," Mandy is exploded off Mt Mern - arrives in Keretaria - night
in Nox's stable
Day 11 - Mandy & Nox leave Keretaria before dawn - cross Munchkin River early - Turn
Town - Highlanders - captured by Wutz - agent brings Ruggedo, Magic Picture to Wutz
- Ruggedo released - Mandy & Nox escape, rescue Kerry - Himself enchants Ruggedo
& Wutz
Mandy & Co. spend "a happy week" in the Emerald City - she then returns to Mt Mern
for a month before relocating to Keretaria
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Day 1 - Kabumpo arrives in Regalia in late afternoon, probably between four and five
(Randy sends Hoochafoo to review the Purple Guard at five o'clock) - Kabumpo &
Randy escape the castle at midnight ("in the bright, white light of a smiling moon") -
season is spring ("moved rhythmically as a ship through the soft spring night"), probably
May or June from Randy's reference to the Gapers' "dinner month"
Day 2 - Kabumpo arrives in Gaper's Gulch while moon is still up (before dawn) - gets 5
miles beyond the Gulch before stopping (still before dawn; "the moon had waned and
the stars grown faint as he stopped at last") - storm - breakfast/lunch in Ix - meet
Planetty & Thun - enter Box Wood - leave Box Wood, enter forest in afternoon - night in
forest
Day 3 - Encounter field of feathers - imprisoned by Gludwig in Red Jinn's basement -
release Ginger - Jinnicky pulled from Nonestic in afternoon/evening - Gludwig spends
evening experimenting with Planetty's staff
Day 4 - At 2 AM Jinnicky & party arrive at the Red Castle - Jinnicky restored to power in
morning - Randy, Kabumpo wait "hours" while Jinnicky revives Planetty, Thun - Randy,
Planetty married
"After a month's merry stay" with Jinnicky, they return to Oz
Note: One of the continuing questions for Ozian researchers is the amount of time that
elapses between different volumes in the canon. SILVER PRINCESS gives more clues
than most as to the passage of time because it reunites two characters from PURPLE
PRINCE (Kabumpo and Randy). There are six books separating the two (PURPLE
PRINCE, OJO, SPEEDY, WISHING HORSE, CAPTAIN SALT, HANDY MANDY). In
SILVER PRINCESS, Thompson gives several clues to the passage of time, indicating
that the time between books averages about a year:
1. In Chapter One, Randy completes his 310th weekly court reception. 310 weeks =
approximately 5.96 years, or about two weeks before the sixth anniversary of his
accession.
2. In Chapter Two Kabumpo says, "You were only about ten when I met you and that
makes you sixteen now." This is not conclusive evidence; Randy replies that he had
been "ten for about four years before I knew you." However, Thompson makes another
reference to this amount of time in her role as narrator in the same chapter ("'tis a
wonder, even after six years, that he managed this visit to Randy"), so it is fairly certain
that six years have passed since the events of PURPLE PRINCE.
3. In Chapter Eight, Kabumpo refers to the last time he saw Jinnicky: "He was in fine
shape and form when I saw him in the Emerald City three years ago. By the way, why
weren't you at that grand celebration?" This is presumably a reference to the events
chronicled in WISHING HORSE, which is separated from SILVER PRINCESS by
CAPTAIN SALT and HANDY MANDY. If we assume that the volumes are
approximately a year apart, this would make SILVER PRINCESS take place in the third
year from WISHING HORSE.
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Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz
Day 1 - Wizard hosts dinner at evening ("the fall evening was quite cool and frosty") -
Oztober launched prematurely
Day 2 - Jellia discovers Kit Bag - they meet the Spikers - Nick Chopper discovers the
Strat - Strut forces Nick to pilot him to Oz - arrival of Ozpril with Wizard, Dorothy,
Scarecrow, Lion - flight to Oz by stick - party imprisoned by Bustabo - Wizard meets
Azurine - party flees to Glinda's castle, arriving at daybreak
Day 3 - Tin Woodman arrives with invaders in AM - palace inhabitants flee - Ozma
confronts Strut - resolves Bustabo problem - Wizard & Tin Woodman leave to find
Ozpril
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Day 1 (8/17) - Jenny Jump meets Siko Pompus, received fairy gifts, leaves NJ
Day 5 (8/21) - Ozma's birthday - Jenny arrives, meets Number Nine - night with Number
Nine's family
Day 6 (8/22) - Jenny recovers the Turnstyle - arrives Emerald City at noon - opens shop
- begins Ozlection
A week passes (Ozma says, "It has been a dull week for [Jack Pumpkinhead], staying
in his ozoplane to guard the votes.")
Day 13 (8/29) - Jack Pumpkinhead's shoe concert - Heelers invade at night - Jenny
arouses firefly fairies
Day 14 (8/30) - Number Nine meets the Wizard - Jenny undergoes youthening process,
loses fairy gifts - old Ozoplane takes off - chocolate general holds Jenny, Scraps, Jack
prisoner - Jenny escapes at night
Day 15 (8/31) - Number Nine's family comes to visit - he begins search for Jenny - they
foil the invasion of chocolate soldiers - he visits the Wizard, rescues Scraps, Jack -
meeting at PLOz at night
Time passes before day set for Ozlection:
Chooseday - Jenny loses, begins riot - Wizard removes Jenny's "bad traits" - Ozma
makes Jenny a Duchess - Siko Pompus returns her fairy gifts
Note: It is not stated in the text what length of time passes between the meeting at the
PLOz and the day set for the Ozlection, but on the basis of Dorothy's statement, "I can't
wait till next Choose Day. This ozlection is going to be a lot of fun," it isn't very long--
perhaps no longer than a week.
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Day 1 - Number Nine is late - Wizard introduces Tik-tok to Scalawagons - Tik-tok runs
down
Day 2 - Lollies drive off Bell-snickle - it messes with the Flabbergas - at noon, the
Wizard prepares to unveil his surprise - Jenny, Scarecrow & Tin Woodman leave with
Sawhorse to rescue Scalawagons - they visit Winkie Woods, Bottles - Jenny meets the
Nota-bells - Number Nine & Clock join her - they rescue Tik-tok, Scalawagons - bathing
party - Bell-snickle steals Jenny's scalawagon - she pursues, spends night in forest
Day 3 - Jellia, Betsy, Trot, Dorothy meet Jenny with their Scalawagons - Bell-snickle
pursued, defeated - dancing in evening
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Day 1 - At noon, Bucky is exploded out of New York harbor - lands in dough volcano,
meets Davy Jones - sleeps in cabin for 12 hours - Number Nine & Wizard have lunch
with Ozma, launch painting project
Day 2 - Bucky awakes at dawn - they meet the Dollfins, Zerons - painted Mombi finds
shelter in Davy's cabin - arrive in Gnome Kingdom, conquer Kaliko, release Gabooches
to escape - travel all night - Number Nine makes trip to Gnome Kingdom
Day 3 - Bucky's party emerges from Gnome Kingdom at daybreak - night in wilderness
Day 4 - Bucky's party continues across wilderness - cross desert at evening on
Polychrome's rainbow
Day 5 - They meet Gamesters, Jack Pott - night with Thunderbugs
Day 6 - Davy slides down slippery slope - Gabooches meet Scarecrow, Tin Woodman -
arrive in Lake Quad in late afternoon - Davy founders - Wizard resolves painting
problems - Mombi captured - fireworks at night
Note: LUCKY BUCKY poses some interesting chronological problems. Neill implies that
the painting project takes place over a single day, but Bucky's and Davy's journey
covers six days. It's not clear in the text when exactly the painting occurs, but it is stated
that the painted Mombi hides in Davy's cabin while he and Bucky are crossing the
Zerons' mountain. Apparently she remained hidden under the bunk in Davy's cabin for
four days--which doesn't say much for Bucky's cabin-cleaning.
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Day 1 - Ozma summons Dorothy and tells her of her impending conference at Burzee
the next morning - she will be gone three days
Day 2 - Ozma & Glinda depart in the morning
Day 3 - "Several hours after midnight" Umb & Ra leave for Emerald City - they capture
Dorothy & Wizard and carry them off - Scarecrow & Scraps suspect something is wrong
- Dot & Wiz released by light after "hours" motionless - Hi-lo takes Wiz, Dot to top of Mt
Illuso - Toto has dinner at 7 PM, causes Umb & Ra to lock themselves away - Dot, Wiz
spend night in Hi-lo's cottage
Day 4 - Umb, Ra find spell, return to Mt Illuso in AM - Dorothy & Wizard arrive in
Pineville after several hours' walk, meet Ozana - they visit Storybook Garden - night in
Ozana's cottage
Day 5 - Ra casts spell "after midnight" - Ozana, Dot, Wiz begin trip to EC in morning -
Mimics begin trip to Oz - Ozma, Glinda arrive - Toto saves the day - Dot, Wiz, Ozana
arrive - Mimics banished around noon
Day 6 - Ozana welcomed to Oz - grand banquet in evening
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Day 1 - Twink, Tom invited to Conjo Island - Love Magnet breaks, Shaggy Man takes it
to Conjo to be repaired - Conjo takes Magic Compass at night - Shaggy Man, Twink,
Tom, Twiffle flee in Airmobile
Day 2 - Shaggy's party arrives in Hightown - they lose Airmobile, visit Valley of
Romance - Shaggy enchanted- at the evening play, Twink interrupts - they find Shaggy
at night
Day 3 - Tom discovers that Twink has been enchanted - Tom rouses the castle at
evening by using the Love Magnet - grand banquet
Day 4 - The party leaves for the Deadly Desert - they meet the Fairy Beavers - night in
Beaver King's castle
Day 5 - They begin the trip under the Desert - Flame Folk - barrier of invisibility - night in
tunnel
Day 6 - Conjo steals Wizard's magic bag - Shaggy's party reaches EC - Beaver King
defeats Conjo - Twiffle & Conjo depart - Twink & Tom depart
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Day 1 - Jam builds the Collapsible Kite - takes lab animals - is carried off by the wind
Day 2 - Jam's crate crashes - he is caught by Terp - imprisoned in castle - Percy goes
scouting - Jam escapes with Pinny & Gig - Percy steals magic muffin
Day 3 - Jam reaches the plains of the Equinots - Percy's sudden appearances rescues
him - night in Gillikin household
Day 4 - Jam & Percy arrive at Winkie River & Swim to Kite Island - rescue of kites -
Collapsible Kite carries Oercy & Jam to Tin Woodman's castle by evening - night in
castle
Day 5 - Dorothy, Scarecrow, Hungry Tiger, Cowardly Lion arrive - Jam released
Collapsible Kite - meet Leopard w/ Changing Spots - night in forest
Day 6 - They visit Bookville - Percy, Rhyming Dictionary release them at night - they
stay outside the town until morning
Day 7 - Spots & Rhyming Dictionary leave for Emerald City - they visit Icetown - they
escape and travel across river on raft - night with Gillikin family
Day 8 - Equinots chased off - arrive at Hidden Valley - Terp captured at night while Tin
Woodman destroys magic muffin tree
Day 9 - The party leaves for EC - night in fields
Day 10 - They arrive in EC - celebration
Day 11 - Jam leaves for home
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Day 1 - An "evening in April" - Robin rides the merry-go-round - Roundelay steals the
last circlet
Day 2 - National Emergency in Halidom - Robin arrives in View Halloo - Giles, Fess,
Fred, Flitter leave Halidom secretly at night, followed by Unicorn
Day 3 - Fess & Co. visit Sign Here & Oracle - Dorothy & Cowardly Lion visit Easter
Bunny, meet Fess & Co. - combined companies visit Home, escape, discover 1st circlet
- night in Blue Forest - Robin & Merry escape from View Halloo at night - remainder of
night in cave
Day 4 - Robin & Merry cross river at ferry, come to Roundabout - joined by Fess,
Dorothy & Co. In late afternoon/early evening - night in Round Room - Flitter rescues
circlet #2
Day 5 - At dawn Merry discovers map to Halidom/Troth - escape from Roundabout -
arrive Halidom at tea-time - interview with Sir Greaves - Ozma arrives - Giles & Fred
promoted - Robin & Merry welcomed to Oz
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Take the Iffin Back to Oz!
