Celebration (Wagons West Ser. 24)

Rating:
Summary: Despite everything, a very good book
Review: CELEBRATION! concludes the Wagons West Series, and sets the stage for THE HOLTS series. This book does a good job wrapping up the various plots ongoing in the series. Henry Blake finally has his showdown with Buehler, and Toby does his best to foil the plot to detroy the torch that will one day be part of the Statue of Liberty. How the two stories entertwined was wonderful. Even Blackstone's attempts to smuggle rubber seeds out of Brazil did not distract from the book.

However, there was again some needless plot complications. Why bother sending Henry to the 7th Cavalry to be with Custer, and then move him from there just before the Last Stand? Why the incident in Alaska? This dropped the book down to a four.