An epic saga of a wagon train heading west from Missouri to Oregon in 1845, across two thousand miles of blistering prairies, raging rivers, and massive mountains, while ravaged by disease and misfortune. But the wagon train pushes relentlessly forward, driven by the migrants’ unwavering hope, desire and sheer desperation.
“A well-written look at the brutality and beauty, the love and anger, that rode the long trail with migrants,” Sacramento Union
“Blacker has taken the strengths and weakness of man and stretched them to the breaking point in an effort to show our unfaltering search for freedom and equality. A novel to be read, thought about, and read again.” Tulsa World
“This is a good reading, a western novel with the emphasis on ‘novel,’ rather than ‘western.'” The Ada Evening News
“Blacker has captured the beauty and brutality of this cruel trail and has woven into it a novel that grips and holds to the end,” Atlanta Journal
“This finely-wrought novel could quite likely be called a western, but it is totally different than any western you’ve ever read before.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat
“An excellent story, very well done,” St. Albans Daily Messenger
“Readers will find this book difficult to abandon once they start in…” The Tyler Courier-Times
Irwin Blacker /
Western
