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Title: Independence by Dana Fuller Ross ISBN: 1-58807-006-9 Publisher: Americana Publishing Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The story that started the Wagon's West series!!
Comment: This is the first book in the Wagon's West series.
The president of the USA is calling in favors. He wants to make sure that the west is American territory and not British or Russian. To do this he calls on his old friend Sam Brentwood and asks him to start a wagon train to Oregon. Sam agrees and will guide the train to Independence, MO where he will stay and make a way station for the future trains to come.
This is where you first meet all the main characters and learn the interaction between them and the types of things that they must face if they are going to try and forge a new life in the west for themselves.
This is the story of their struggles against the British & Russian forces trying to keep them for making the trip.
This book is one of the 7th printing from back in the early 80's. If you are interested in the settlement of the American West this is one series that you need to revisit.
Rating: 5
Summary: British and Russian intrigue on the Oregon Trail
Comment: Andrew Jackson, the President of the United States in 1844,
tells Martin Van Buren, his vice president and successor, that "joint control is no control" because under the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, the United States and Britain have joint
control of the Oregon Territory. The book's set in 1837, which historically, isn't when the Oregon-bound settlers
set out. Chalk it up to dramatic license. You have your
cast of characters: Whip Holt, the assistant wagonmaster,
he takes over after Sam Brentwood leads the wagon train as far as Independence, Missouri. Sam marries Cathy van
Ayl's widowed sister, Claudia, and they stay on there to outfit
future wagon trains. You have Henry St. Claire, a British
spy, whose mission for Her Majesty's Government, is to
sabotage it. You also have a beautiful Russian, I forget her name, but she's blackmailed by the Czar's government into
sabotaging it too. Then there's Hosea, a runaway slave,
you also have the Taylor family, Danny, an escaped endentured servant, and Stalking Horse, a Cherokee Indian.
You also have a man dying of consumption, a father with a
daughter, and his illegitimate granddaughter. There's also
a bankrupt planter and his daughter, also named Claudia.
I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a way to start
Comment: The greatest series of historical fiction starts with a bang. Hey, someone contradicts Andrew Jackson in the FIRST sentence.
With an interesting cast of characters, as well as action and intrigue, this book has it all as the wagon train starts its journey to Oregon by covering the eastern half of the US. Historically, settlers Oregon-bound did not start until around 1844, but we can let that slide. What is strange is that THE principle cast in this book take a diminished role in future titles, save for Cathy Van Ayl. (I'm not counting Whip, who was more prominent later on in Nebraska and aafterward). A MUST READ.
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Title: Wagon West #06: California by Dana Fuller Ross ISBN: 0553233815 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: March, 1981 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Nebraska by Dana Fuller Ross ISBN: 0553261622 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Colorado by Dana Fuller Ross ISBN: 055314717X Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm) Pub. Date: 01 June, 1981 List Price(USD): $10.01 |
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Title: Montana by Dana Fuller Ross ISBN: 0553229257 Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm) Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $10.01 |
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Title: Texas by Dana Fuller Ross ISBN: 0553139800 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell |
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