Plume Rouge

THIS is an excellent and exciting story of an early attempt to reach the Oregon country from St. Louis by ascending the Missouri and striking westward through hostile country and strange mountains. Only once before had this route been followed successfully, and never before by a colonizing expedition of men and women. Burton McKenzie, whom the Indians called “Plume Rouge,” was the leader and a good one. This is fictional history or historical fiction, but founded on adequate research. The story is no stranger, the record of courage and endurance no more fantastic, than the real happenings of that time and place. The author is both a good novelist and a thorough student of his subject. The result is adventure, soberly and convincingly told, with a thread of romance strengthening into a genuine love story. R. E. D.