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...