THE WILD YAZOO

by John Myers Myers ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 14, 1946

Good yearning- and a new setting for Myers, who is best known as the author of such tales of derring-do as The Harp and The Blade. This time the American frontier provides his setting, a background not deeply felt but vivid enough with its tumultous life, its crudities and its vitality. Against the story of the opening up of the wild Yazoo in the Mississippi Valley hinterlands, is the personal story of a young rake of Tidewater Virginia, unaccustomed to putting his brain and brawn to useful ends, and of how the frontier made a man of him. Good entertainment though one has a feeling of having read such stories before (for example, Clifford Dowdey's Tidewater, published in 1942, had much the same theme and flavor). There's plenty of action, full measure of romance, reasonably good characterization. Form Virginia to Natches-under-the-Hill; off to the wilderness as a surveyor, where new st for life is found. There's good factual data on a little known phase of the opening up of a territory that later supplied bloody adventure.

Pub Date: Feb. 14, 1946

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Dutton

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1946

Categories: FICTION