Helpful Score: 1
First the positive. This book reads like a diary, true to life, the journey West was usually decided by the men and most difficult on the women. I have spent time with religious groups, for whom Biblical mandate for the husband to be leader the home is a main doctrine. For some men it is an excuse to be domineering and difficult, somehow neglecting the rest of the Biblical explanation; but for others there was a caring and gentleness that was a witness in itself. I think that Dallas handled both possibilities fairly.
With this said, though, I find it difficult not to sum up this book as one long dissertation on how many ways a person can die or be maimed traveling by foot across the country.
With this said, though, I find it difficult not to sum up this book as one long dissertation on how many ways a person can die or be maimed traveling by foot across the country.
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