This book is one of Louis L’Amour’s stories about how a young man comes into manhood on his journey into the early west. This story shows the spirit of the pioneers who moved west to establish new towns and in the intervening time placing their imprint on the country around them.
This story is about a young man that put his stamp on a western community with out trying. They were strangers drawn together in a wagon train heading for the western ocean and the farming lands of Oregon. A strong woman Ruth Macken was the beginning building block of the settlement and when she stopped, she challenged all to do their best if they deceided to stay. The settlement grew into a community, where neighbors trusted and depended upon each other. The town grew and expressed the largeness of the surrounding country. Bendigo Shafter accepted the challenge with out even knowing it. He grew large as he accepted these new opportunities that surround him.
Many events happen to keep the reader turning the pages and investing their time and energy into experiencing this story, of a man growing to fill his destiny. I will always enjoy the stories of Louis L’Amour no matter how many times I reread them. I recommend this story to first time western readers as well as the hard-core longtime western readers.
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I really want to read this one. Sounds like no, or at least very little, violence.