Wilderness Venture

by Elizabeth Howard

In 1825 sixteen-year-old Delia and her three brothers set out to claim land in the Michigan wilderness that their widowed mother bought sight unseen.

190 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Elizabeth Howard (Mizner) was born in 1907 in Detroit, and spent most of her life in Michigan. Descended from a noteworthy historic family, she loved history herself and enjoyed sharing her strong sense of the past in historical novels for teenage girls.

Reviews

[Cindi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has the potential to be a great story. Unfortunately, it's too short to really draw out the characters and setting. It's good and clean, just lacking in detail!