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Title: Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw ISBN: 0-14-032170-5 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Moccasin Trail
Comment: Moccasin Trail is a great book about a young trapper by the name of Jim Keath, who decides to follow the ways of his uncle and live with him. However, that dream was short-lived, for as he arrived at his uncle's camp, a large bear attacked him and Jim was badly hurt. He is saved from certain death by a group of Crow Indians, who treat him as one of their own. After six years of living with the Indians, Jim returns to his family to help them settle out West. The whole book tells of how Jim must reaccustom himself to the life of a white-man, and still keep the senses of an Indian so that he can help his family.
Rating: 5
Summary: Jim Keath: Indian or American
Comment: Family drama and adventure combine in this realistic mid-1800's Oregon Country novel, Moccasin Trail. Main character Jim Keath is struggling to find his niche. He is undoubtedly the Michael Jackson of the 1800's, a white man impersonating an Absarokian Crow Indian. While Jim does not have the same dancing ability or plastic surgery, he inhibits keen beaver trapping and survival skills, not to mention the braids and moccasins, of a wild Native American.
Nine years before the scene of the story, Keath runs away from his family only to end up living with the Crows after a tragic accident on the trail occurs. He adapts to the tribe's culture and lifestyle before departing them as well to pursue in the art of beaver trapping.
Things start to become complicated when Jim somehow receives a letter of help from his family. Unsure of what to do, Jim must decide whether to follow the road he once walked upon or the path he is currently journeying across... Full of suspense, this story leaves you on the edge of your seat and begging for more, describing what times and life were like in good ol' Manifest Destiny.
Rating: 3
Summary: A rewiew by a teenager
Comment: 3-½ star This is an example of the typical tone of the passages contained within this book...
"The older Indian, hearing his name, bobbed his head and grinned. Jim felt disgust as he pushed out of his thicket and joined the group. Diggers were poor excuses for Indians. Look at them. Bandy legged, grinning like skinned coyotes, stinking of the fish they lived on."
The general linguistic style of the book is written to reflect the speech of the characters in the mid 1800's in Oregon with "ain't, wuth, gonna" and other terms used freely. Like many of the books of the genre, the story is written from the viewpoint of settlers. Indeed, the main character is a settler who has lived amongst the Native American's rather than an actual Native American. There are more current and dynamic books such as _Red Sky Ochre_ and _Cochtow Code_ for young adult level readers interested in fiction with well-developed protagonists who truly are Native American. Moccasin Trail is best left unread due to the fact that Jim is not a Native American but a white man. -
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