Review: Not a dull page, hardship upon hardship
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2013
Boy, there's not a dull page here.  Hardship piled on hardship, and then the hard times really start.  All this accompanied by almost continual fighting with Comanches.  The depictions of crossing of the desert lands is cruelly accurate for those who have seen and been in these lands.  Our hero, Jake, is an interesting combination of reality vs the necessity of expected image with recognition of the importance of the latter in leadership.