The White Woman and Her Valley

by Arch Merrill

Book Overview

Presents stories of the people and events of the Genesee River Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932334881
• ISBN13: 9780932334886
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Empire State Books
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Echoes of the valley

I am a student of history and local history is especially interesting to me so I love the Arch Merrill books. His writing style is informative and at the same time very easy to read. Every time I travel to Letchworth Park I am reminded of this book and Merrill's vivid description of the beauty and the story of Mary Jemison. Merrill's books should not be out of print because they are the most valuable resource we have in keeping the history of Western New York alive! I aspire to write local history in the tradition of Arch Merrill and I respect him as a role model.

A pleasure again!

I recently re-read this Arch Merrill classic. His use of language has a flair that is rarely experienced in modern novels. He paints a picture of the Western New York locales that I, as a native, find to be accurate yet remindful of a time when these hills, valleys, and the gorge of the Genesee River must have been so pristine and even more beautiful than today. Merrill tells of the raw truth of savage times without the gore that modern stories find necessary to include. He leaves much to the imagination while describing a multitude of detail. I love the book and the authors quaint style.