When Tim and Father go to Verplank's Point to sell cattle, they are stopped by cowboys. The cowboys say that they don't want the cattle to be sold to the british, since the rebels are short of every supply they need, but really just want to take the cattle and sell it themselves for money and other stuff. They really didn't care who got the cattle.
He stays calm and gives them what they want.
In my brother Sam is dead what does Tim do when the Cowboys stop him
Nobody kills him. He gets taken away by cowboys/ cattle thieves to prison on a ship. while he's there, he gets cholera and dies.
He has a mother, father and brother. And no, none of them are dead.
smallpox
Jesus
Tom Warrups
father isn't on anyones side he is against war
he was imprisoned on a british ship, and died of a disease.
He was captured by cowboys and taken on a ship where he got a disease and died. He was soon buried on an island.
Ophelia has been trained by her heavy-handed father to do what he tells her (and failing that, what her brother tells her). With her father dead and her brother in France, she has no anchor in her world.
Betsy Read's family in "My Brother Sam is Dead" consists of her father, mother, and brother Sam Meeker. Sam plays a central role in the story as the brother of the main character, Tim Meeker.