THE GIRL IN BUCKSKIN

by Dorothy Gilman Butters ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 1956

Massachusetts and Connecticut in the days of early pioneering and Puritan settlements backgrounds a well worked story of Becky, 16 and bound out, and the course of a hard choice she makes as the only road to freedom. Threatened with marriage to a 50 year old tyrant, Becky escapes from the Leggett household with her brother Eseck, a village ""recreant"" who had lived with the Indians after their parents had been killed by them. Though Becky wants to escape marriage her decision to go with Eseck presents the problem of a difference in beliefs for Becky, who does not see the Indians as human beings the way Eseck does. Yet as they go to live in the isolated Housatonic Valley, Becky learns to accept their protectors and becomes woman enough to live through yet another climax when- with the French Indians on the warpath- Eseck is able to save the lives of Becky and the Irish farmer with whom she has fallen in love. Good!

Pub Date: Aug. 1, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macrae-Smith

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION