Down the Long Hills

Title: Down the Long Hills

Author: Louis L'Amour

Summary: Seven-year old Hardy and three-year old Betty Sue along with a fierce stallion known as Big Red are the only ones to survive an Indian Massacre on their wagon train. Hardy knows that his dad is waiting for him at Fort Bridger, but they are still over a month away and danger is around every turn. Not only are they being trailed by an Indian set on getting Big Red, but they run into two unsavory outlaws who would also love to own the beauteous Big Red, not to mention just trying to survive in the wild. By a miraculous chance, a mountain man happens on the massacre site and knows that the two young children escaped, he tells the Hardy's father, Scott Collins, who immediately sets off in search of his boy, hoping beyond all hope that Hardy will remember the
things he's been taught and survive.

Recommendation: Not normally my kind of book but I actually really liked it. A lot better than the Tony Hillerman book. This is only the second L'Amour book I've read (the first is Last of the Breed) and I enjoyed both of them. This book is quick and fast paced. I don't know how plausible it is, but a lot of the events seem true and the characters the children encounter were certainly life like. I want to read more L'Amour books and I would recommend it to anyone.

Hearts: 4