Worth Reading

A Light in the Wilderness

by Jane Kirkpatrick

Revell, Baker Publishing Group

Softcover 320 pages

This is the story of three women-Letitia, a freed slave, Nancy, who leaves the life she loves to follow her husband to the West Coast, and Betsy, a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of the proud tribe in the Willamette Valley.

I like this book because it tells the incredible story of these three women who went through life on a treacherous west-bound journey by wagon train. This is based on a true story.

Jane Kirkpatrick has written several books which are well-researched and give as accurate a picture of the time period po...

 
 
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