The River Way Home The Adventures of the Cowboy the Indian the Queen edition by Mary E Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks
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Alligators, Outlaws, and Tourists!
Best Florida Fiction of 2013*
Best Florida Young Adult Book of 2013*
*Florida Authors and Publisher's Association.
It's 1914 on Florida's last frontier. A young Cracker who yearns to become a Florida cow hunter, a Seminole boy who sees his way of life dying, and an educated African-American girl from Baltimore who longs to have adventures are lost in the magical and mysterious Florida Jungle between Lake Okeechobee and the Atlantic Ocean. When outlaws block the only road back, they have to find a new way home. How will they survive, and who will they be when they get there?
"The River Way Home" is a tale of pre-bulldozer Florida for young adults and adults who are young at heart. Full of action, humor, exotic animals, and conflicts that remain contemporary today, it is a classic tale of friendship and coming-of-age that will take you back in time to your childhood favorites.
The River Way Home The Adventures of the Cowboy the Indian the Queen edition by Mary E Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks
I just turned the last page of this book. And, what can I tell you that other reviewers haven’t mentioned already? This book reminded me what it’s like to be a kid, and to dream of grandiose adventures in a world that is full of wildness, wonder, and possibilities. We are so conditioned in this age to wait for the “nightmare” to come out and grab us in current fiction. And, so I waited. And, I waited some more. The fun adventure never turned into a horrible nightmare. Because of this it gave me the ability to relax and really enjoy the mischief that the kids got into along the way.And, although to some, it might have seemed that the tight situations might have been tall tales stretched a bit too long. But for anyone who has lived in Florida, they might say most of what the kids did seemed like it could have happened. I did live there in the early 1970s through the 1980s. The storms are brutal and frightening, the Everglades were wild, the gators were scary, and I did have occasion to run from the boogie man more than a few times. It’s a bit hard to envision all of this from the big cities of Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, but if you go upstate toward the middle—at least back then—you could see how the landscape and the people changed. It was a whole different world that could really give you a glimpse of this untamed wild Florida we see in the book.
So, what if the story is a yarn told by an old grisly cowboy camped out around a fire on a clear starry night? Isn’t that what we are missing these days--just a good old fashioned story to tickle the imagination, and lend a person to believe that their hopes and dreams might come true? That’s what this book was--just a marvelous tale—unique, unlike any I’ve read in a long time. Three scrappy kids, all unlikely friends from totally different backgrounds, fall into all kinds of trouble in the raw wilderness of the Florida Everglades in 1914. This story has heart, and these kids have spunk and guts and imagination to get out of the crazy situations they get into. They’re smart. They’re brave. And, best of all, they are tight and true friends.
The book is full of hope that all their dreams will come true: Blue-eyed Billy wants to have a ranch; the Chief wants the wisdom and insight to lead his people; and, Queenie the Amazon warrior wants to grow up and have adventures, live out quests, and be free. Today these don’t seem like such momentous triumphs. But, in 1914, in the backwoods of that untamed state these were lofty goals for kids to strive for. And, even though the book doesn’t tell us what happened to them when they grew up—we know, by the end of the story, that their dreams probably did come true.
I offer my thanks to Mary Dawson for allowing me to read and review this special story. It really is a gem!
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The River Way Home The Adventures of the Cowboy the Indian the Queen edition by Mary E Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Mary Dawson is a woman of many talents...lawyer, politician and now published author. She writes a coming of age tale through the eyes of three almost teens in early 20th century rural Florida. Diversity has always been Florida's middle name and these kids come from different worlds...a Seminole Indian boy who reveres his history and the land where they live, a fisherman's son living rough on what they can catch in Lake Okeechobee who wants to be a cowboy, and a well educated, well read, African American gal they call Queenie who thinks she knows it all...until she is face to face with an alligator. The historical details have been well researched and the tale is well told. A must read.
I feel I must begin with a confession. Although I have never met Mary Dawson, my own mother was a young girl on the frontier in 1914, when the train first came through Cokeville Wyoming, and as a child my own grandmother told me true stories of encounters with real bank robbers. So the plot of The River Way home, which has been summarized so well already by other reviewers, had a special and personal meaning to me.
The book is very real. The prologue of the cowboy telling a story by the campfire took me back to other similar campfires of my youth, and I was "hooked". I also had visited southern Florida as a young teenager, and visited Lake Okeechobee, Clewiston, and untouched parts of the Everglades and the Keys, which magnified the vividness of the scenes as they rapidly unfolded.
The interplay and role reversals as the three young teenagers run into countless threats and challenges is amazing. Each takes leadership or gives critical insights based upon their individual cultural backgrounds, experience and training. The tremendous differences and diversity between the three of them repeatedly turn out to be their greatest strengths as they meet and overcome a myriad of challenges.
Part of the book's greatness is the subtle moral lessons it conveys without ever preaching. I would like to say that the book presents another interesting conflict arising out of our traditional cultural American idealization of bandits and desperadoes, but to even point this out makes me guilty of preaching.
Suffice it to say that the images of the storm, the swamps, the alligator attack, the night in the tree, the beautiful waterways, fishing trip, and even the train are the stuff that would make a great Disney movie.
I commend the book to anyone interested in real history coupled with valuable life lessons for today and the future.
Like another reviewer, I read this book on my but am buying print versions to share with my mother and grand kids.
This is historical fiction, based on the events, the land, and its people a century ago in the Lake Okeechobee region of Florida. Three teenage protagonists, a black girl, a white boy, and an Indian boy, are the vehicle for the story. Their adventures - everything from fighting an alligator to confronting the infamous bank robbing Ashley gang, are vivid and believable. It is reminiscent of Huck Finn and his buddy, Jim the runaway slave, on the Mississippi.
For young readers, it is not only an exploration into what life was like on this southern frontier, but an interesting insight into social interaction. How the youngsters related to each other, and to a variety of strangers, is an education.
The epilog/addendum to the story is non-fiction. It is a history of the people and places that shaped Florida. The characters are based on those real people and events. The photos and text of this portion of the book alone are worth the price of admission.
As a lifetime writer/editor, I set the bar of literary expectation high. This book has earned its five star rating.
I just turned the last page of this book. And, what can I tell you that other reviewers haven’t mentioned already? This book reminded me what it’s like to be a kid, and to dream of grandiose adventures in a world that is full of wildness, wonder, and possibilities. We are so conditioned in this age to wait for the “nightmare” to come out and grab us in current fiction. And, so I waited. And, I waited some more. The fun adventure never turned into a horrible nightmare. Because of this it gave me the ability to relax and really enjoy the mischief that the kids got into along the way.
And, although to some, it might have seemed that the tight situations might have been tall tales stretched a bit too long. But for anyone who has lived in Florida, they might say most of what the kids did seemed like it could have happened. I did live there in the early 1970s through the 1980s. The storms are brutal and frightening, the Everglades were wild, the gators were scary, and I did have occasion to run from the boogie man more than a few times. It’s a bit hard to envision all of this from the big cities of Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, but if you go upstate toward the middle—at least back then—you could see how the landscape and the people changed. It was a whole different world that could really give you a glimpse of this untamed wild Florida we see in the book.
So, what if the story is a yarn told by an old grisly cowboy camped out around a fire on a clear starry night? Isn’t that what we are missing these days--just a good old fashioned story to tickle the imagination, and lend a person to believe that their hopes and dreams might come true? That’s what this book was--just a marvelous tale—unique, unlike any I’ve read in a long time. Three scrappy kids, all unlikely friends from totally different backgrounds, fall into all kinds of trouble in the raw wilderness of the Florida Everglades in 1914. This story has heart, and these kids have spunk and guts and imagination to get out of the crazy situations they get into. They’re smart. They’re brave. And, best of all, they are tight and true friends.
The book is full of hope that all their dreams will come true Blue-eyed Billy wants to have a ranch; the Chief wants the wisdom and insight to lead his people; and, Queenie the warrior wants to grow up and have adventures, live out quests, and be free. Today these don’t seem like such momentous triumphs. But, in 1914, in the backwoods of that untamed state these were lofty goals for kids to strive for. And, even though the book doesn’t tell us what happened to them when they grew up—we know, by the end of the story, that their dreams probably did come true.
I offer my thanks to Mary Dawson for allowing me to read and review this special story. It really is a gem!
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