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Book ReviewsWayfaring Strangers: A Frontier Story (Thorndike Press Large Print Western Series) |
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Book: Wayfaring Strangers: A Frontier Story (Thorndike Press Large Print Western Series)
Written by: Tim Champlin |
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Vivid narrative, memorable characters, surprise plot twists.
Rating:
5 / 5
In 1849, the news the gold had been discovered in California swept the country and launched a mass migration of men seeking their fortunes in the goldfields of the west. There were three routes to California. The first was by sailing ship around Cape Horn. Fleeing prison and a duel in Charleston, Rob Merriman and Clayburn Collins booked passage on the Inverness to Boston, only to have the ship's crew mutiny and take the ship to the new gold fields. A second route was by stern-wheeler through the Gulf of Mexico, and then go overland to the Pacif. This was the choice of Trevor Sloan, father of the man Merriman killed in the duel took in his mission to even the score. The third way was overland by wagon train, horse and on foot. Lisa Sizemore's parents sold their inn to finance the family's trek. Lisa felt she would never see Clay Collins again. Those who survived their arduous and dangerous journeys come together in California with very unexpected results in Tim Champlin's highly recommended Wayfaring Strangers. Champlin is a superb storytelling with a masterful ability to seize his reader's total attention with a vivid narrative, memorable characters, and unexpected plot twists.
Superb, masterful, "Old West" storytelling.
Rating:
5 / 5
In 1849, the news the gold had been discovered in California swept the country and launched a mass migration of men seeking their fortunes in the goldfields of the west. There were three routes to California. The first was by sailing ship around Cape Horn. Fleeing prison and a duel in Charleston, Rob Merriman and Clayburn Collins booked passage on the Inverness to Boston, only to have the ship's crew mutiny and take the ship to the new gold fields. A second route was by stern-wheeler through the Gulf of Mexico, and then go overland to the Pacif. This was the choice of Trevor Sloan, father of the man Merriman killed in the duel took in his mission to even the score. The third way was overland by wagon train, horse and on foot. Lisa Sizemore's parents sold their inn to finance the family's trek. Lisa felt she would never see Clay Collins again. Those who survived their arduous and dangerous journeys come together in California with very unexpected results in Tim Champlin's highly recommended Wayfaring Strangers. Champlin is a superb storytelling with a masterful ability to seize his reader's total attention with a vivid narrative, memorable characters, and unexpected plot twists.
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