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"Lucy Scott Mitchum wasn't sure how she felt about California. But that's where she was going. Ever since they'd left the security of their life back east...ever since they'd packed all their belongings, taken their little family, and started on the long trail west, Lucy and her husband, Noah, had talked of nothing but their future..." "California was paradise, and unlimited opportunity, and untold riches. Noah was going to the goldfields and he would strike it rich - nothing less than a fortune would do." "But before the promise of California, there would be endless miles of prairie and mountain, swollen rivers and Indians, disease and madness. Lucy and her little family would have to survive a two-thousand-mile ordeal before they got there. It would be harder than she could ever imagine....And it was going to be war. War against the elements, against hostile natives, and against the will of the land itself. A war to be fought every minute of every day, against herself and her fears."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Riefe's first novel outside of her Iroquois series (Mohawk Woman, etc.) displays her usual attention to historical detail, but little else of merit. When Lucy Scott Mitchum's idealistic husband, Noah, gets bitten by the 1849 gold bug, she dutifully packs her worldly possessions in a prairie schooner and accompanies him from Baltimore to Sacramento with their four-year-old daughter in tow. The family's six-month trek across the Great Plains and over the Sierra Nevada mountains should have resulted in high historical drama, but Riefe's uninspired narrative robs even stampeding buffaloes and hostile Indians of their impact. Some of the flattening comes from the way characters remain passing acquaintances. When one fellow traveler of the Mitchums commits suicide by jumping in a river, for instance, it barely causes a ripple in the reader's consciousness. After building up anticipation of an impending massacre by Cheyenne of traders in Fort Laramie, Riefe describes the event as viewed from a distance, with little color or excitement. While trouble crops up continually for Lucy and her kin, they sail through nearly unscathed. The family will at last reach Sacramento, but a number of readers will have jumped schooner long before. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《书目》(Booklist)书评
For Noah Mitchum, California is a 10-letter word that spells gold. His wife, Lucy, loyal if not enthusiastic, agrees to the plan: sell everything, pack up their baby daughter, and join a wagon train for the trek west. The Mitchums face the full complement of dangers--weather, Indians, sickness--but they persevere. What keeps them together isn't blazing rifles or cavalry rescues; rather, it's the sense of a common family that grows up between all the families in the wagon train. And it's the women--the wives and mothers--who hold the families and the wagon train together. This fascinating, entertaining tale of endurance is related through the eyes of Lucy Mitchum, who leaves the comfort of home to support her husband's dream only to find it become her dream, too. Riefe, who understands the incredible courage it must have taken to survive and prosper during the move westward, has created another memorable heroine in Lucy Mitchum. A fine western. --Wes Lukowsky
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Readers who normally avoid Westerns will find Riefe's (Mohawk Woman, LJ 12/95) novel a real treat. The author's clear, appealing writing tells the fictional story of Baltimore native Lucy Scott Mitchum; her husband, Noah; and young daughter Lynette as they journey across America in 1849 to the gold fields of California. They travel with four other families in a wagon train and encounter various Native American tribes, charging buffaloes, sickness, and a tragic massacre. The reader will learn how to cook buffalo meat, treat toothache with chamomile tea, and shoe an ox. Riefe's writing style is pleasing, and most of the characters are believable and quite likable. As Lucy Mitchum reaches California and begins a new life as one of Sacramento's first school teachers, the reader shuts the book and wonders whether this was in fact a true story. A nice buy for Western and historical fiction shelves.Alice DiNizo, Raritan P.L., N.J. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.