Danger Along the Ohio (An Avon Camelot Book)

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Summary: 3 children, separated from their dad, travel the OH river.
Review: Danger Along The Ohio by Patricia Willis is an excellent story about pioneer life in Ohio during the mid to late 1700's. This book is full of adventure that will keep the reader on the edge of their seat! It is a book you will not want to put down once you begin reading it. The language in this book is wonderful. It is full of similes, metaphors, imagery, onomatopoeia, and more. This book also provides the opportunity to discuss how the white pioneers viewed the Native Americans, and vice verse. For anyone who wants to know more about Ohio life during this time, this is a perfect book. Kids love it!

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Summary: A good pionear book.
Review: This book contains a great mix of charaters and plots. Even though they could of jazzed it up a little it was stil a ture and great story for education, intrest, and fun. The book was a travel along the ohio most of the time.

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Summary: Politically Correct Reconstruction of History
Review: While we have all been taught by the gods of political correctness that all native Americans were tranquil, land loving, pacifists, who only resorted to violence after horrific attacks by the evil white man, the reality was far from this fantasy.

Native Americans did horrific things (as did their white counterparts), to their enemies. Settlers were decapitated and their heads mounted on poles as warnings. The city of Wheeling, WV is named for this act. Another normal atrocity was to flay their victims alive, peeling their skin from their bodies in front of their families. Women and children as young as five years old were raped in front of their fathers or husbands. Homes were burned, infant babies thrown off of cliffs because their captive mothers were unable to keep pace and take care of their children.

While white men performed atrocities as well, often mimicking the horriffic acts of their enemies, such as "Mad" Anthony Wayne, or the "Hair-buyer."

This book is nothing more than the idealized ramblings of some PC liberal intent on re-writing history in their own image. In other words, pure BS. Don't buy it, rent it, borrow it or steal it, unless you plan on doing the good liberal thing and you recycle it into toilet paper.