Against All Odds: The Lucy Scott Mitchum Story

By Barbara Riefe

Book Overview

Lucy Scott Mitchum was not sure how she felt about California. But that's where she and her family were going. Since they'd packed all their belongings and started on the long trail West, Lucy and her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312860757
• ISBN13: 9780312860752
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Forge Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A woman's journey by covered wagon in 1849.

Lucy Mitchum was not happy when her husband Noah decided they would sell their house in Baltimore, take their four year old daughter, and travel in a covered wagon to California, where Noah hoped to find gold. But even Lucy knew it was hard to make a living in the east, so she agreed to the plan. But it will take all of Lucy and Noah's courage to survive the difficult journey intact. I am 13 and I enjoyed this book a lot, even though it was an adult book.

A Woman Leaves Her Home

This easy-to-read novel chronicles the movement of Lucy Scott Mitchum across the prairies and through the wilds and over the mountains to her new home in the Sacramento Valley. Although this is not a scholarly work, it is a realistic rendering of the worries and problems facing a woman moving West in a troubling times. What I liked best about this book is that far from painting these immigrants with the usual "hero" paintbrush and making them bigger that life, Barbara Riefe was able to make them human beings with all the failings that that entails. Her Lucy Scott Mitchum made love, worried about friendships, worried about her child, and loved her husband, even though she did not think he was infalable. Just as in real life, there was not an entirely happy ending, but not an entirely unhappy one either. I look forward to Barbara Reife's further books