Review: Wholesome Frontier Adventure!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
Excellent start to the Arkansas Valley series!  Featuring wholesome characters exhibiting Godly values, Rogers introduces readers to high adventure on the western frontier.  This book presents the arduous journey of frontiersmen who learn to rely upon their innate survival instincts, the support of fellow travelers, and their Christian faith as they venture out across the wild west in an effort to establish homesteads deep in Indian Country.  This book has a great plot featuring the struggles encountered among fellow travelers, unpredictable weather, natural hindrances, and violent natives populations; this book very effectively transports readers to the 1800s and easily conveys the adventurous spirit of the West.  Rogers maintained dialogue appropriate and consistent for the time period, without over exaggeration to the point of unintelligible gibberish -- an aspect I personally appreciated very much.  Great read, and I look forward to book 2.