Alice B. reviewed on 2/13/2017 + 3563 more book reviews

I love this book.The author is a great writer.I do not usually read westerns but my husband told me about this one.I think that it is very true to life. The Prescott's were well off farmers in New York.I think I would have stayed there.They took the Erie Canal to the Ohio River and put all their belongings on a raft.That was a mistake.The raft overturned and they lost many of their belongings and much more. Their daughter Eve Prescott married a man that she met and she proposed to on the journey Linus Rawlings. They farmed along the Ohio River for many years. The Prescott's' other three children headed west. The other daughter a talented singer Lilith headed west as one of the three and began a new life as a singer financed by her Ohio farmer brother-in -law.She decided to go all the way west and fell in love with Cleve whom she met on a wagon train. In was not in her plans to fall in love and get married but you can follow her and her relatives that go west and truly see the blood, sweat and tears it took to settle the west. I believe the details of this story are very true.

This is a beautiful brown copy.

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