Becky Landers: Frontier Warrior

In the year 1778, as the War for Independence rages, Becky forms a plan to join the audacious Captain George Rogers Clark on his daredevil mission to win the British holdings at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. She hopes to rescue her brother near Kaskaskia. Naturally, she will meet every form of resistance to such an outrageous initiative from a 15-year-old girl. This vivid and well-researched novel paints, in the author s words, a composite picture of communal and family life in Kentucky with its forts, its cabins, its sports and customs, as well as of the sterner life of its warriors and hunters and shows us the heroic part played by the women and the young girls. We are memorably introduced to the historic figures of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, the Frenchman De Quindre, the Indian Black Fish and others, who interweave with Becky s adventures in as colorful a manner as their actual personalities deserve.