What do you think?
Rate this book
Walk the Promise Road: A Novel of the Oregon Trail
Mary Rodgers has lost everything—or so she believes. Her entire family has been struck down with influenza, leaving her alone in the world—except for her cousin Philip. But Philip is bound for Oregon to meet up with Laurel, his fiancée, who’s waiting for him. Though Mary begs him to take her with him on the Oregon Trail, he resists. What would people think?
Mary’s plan is simple. They already share a last name. They will pose as husband and wife. The wagonmaster is a firm man—and if he finds out the truth, he’ll force them to marry, dashing Philip’s dreams of a life with Laurel. But Mary promises it will be their secret, and Philip can’t leave her behind after all she’s lost.
When Luke Sayer, their half-Indian trail scout, begins to spend evenings at their fireside, other travelers notice the obvious mutual attraction between him and Mary. Though Mary denies it, she struggles to keep her promise without bringing harm to either her dear cousin, Philip, who has risked everything for her—or to Luke, the love of her life.
Mary's grit and determination will see her through the hardships and sorrows she encounters, but Luke’s love will give her hope for the future as they WALK THE PROMISE ROAD…
Winner, 2019 WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD for Historical Romance.
“With exquisite details of wagon trains, women and the West, Anne Schroeder takes us on an authentic journey of love and hope giving us characters to cheer for and moments of meaning to cherish.” — Jane Kirkpatrick, Award-winning author of ALL SHE LEFT BEHIND.
"The most accurate novel I've ever read on the Trail." — Michael Smith, Oregon Trail Preservation Committee
Mary’s plan is simple. They already share a last name. They will pose as husband and wife. The wagonmaster is a firm man—and if he finds out the truth, he’ll force them to marry, dashing Philip’s dreams of a life with Laurel. But Mary promises it will be their secret, and Philip can’t leave her behind after all she’s lost.
When Luke Sayer, their half-Indian trail scout, begins to spend evenings at their fireside, other travelers notice the obvious mutual attraction between him and Mary. Though Mary denies it, she struggles to keep her promise without bringing harm to either her dear cousin, Philip, who has risked everything for her—or to Luke, the love of her life.
Mary's grit and determination will see her through the hardships and sorrows she encounters, but Luke’s love will give her hope for the future as they WALK THE PROMISE ROAD…
Winner, 2019 WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD for Historical Romance.
“With exquisite details of wagon trains, women and the West, Anne Schroeder takes us on an authentic journey of love and hope giving us characters to cheer for and moments of meaning to cherish.” — Jane Kirkpatrick, Award-winning author of ALL SHE LEFT BEHIND.
"The most accurate novel I've ever read on the Trail." — Michael Smith, Oregon Trail Preservation Committee
332 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 10, 2018
229 people are currently reading
115 people want to read
About the author
Anne Schroeder
34 books64 followersWinner of the 2019 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Historical Romance, Anne Schroeder describes herself as a calorically-challenged Aphrodite with an unmistakable fervor for life. Second of seven children, she was born in Ventura County, California, the subject of her recently re-released memoir, Branches on the Conejo Revisited.
She graduated from Cal Poly, SLO, with a husband and toddler in the first wave of the Sexual Revolution. Her memoir, Ordinary Aphrodite, is an adventure tale about a life of small steps. Her fiction and memoir have appeared in magazines and anthologies.
She is active in Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America. Her Central Coast Series, including Cholama Moon and Maria Ines, features well researched, character-driven novels about California in the Time of the Spanish, Mexican and American conquests.
She and her husband moved from the Central Coast of California to Southern Oregon in search of adventure. She has a happy husband, two darling granddaughters and two lazy dogs.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
She graduated from Cal Poly, SLO, with a husband and toddler in the first wave of the Sexual Revolution. Her memoir, Ordinary Aphrodite, is an adventure tale about a life of small steps. Her fiction and memoir have appeared in magazines and anthologies.
She is active in Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America. Her Central Coast Series, including Cholama Moon and Maria Ines, features well researched, character-driven novels about California in the Time of the Spanish, Mexican and American conquests.
She and her husband moved from the Central Coast of California to Southern Oregon in search of adventure. She has a happy husband, two darling granddaughters and two lazy dogs.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 31 reviews
May 14, 2018
Well Worth The Journey
Anne Schroeder has written a well-researched historical novel set on the Oregon Trail in 1848. Walk The Promise Road is full of authentic detail, young wisdom, and amazing courage. It is brimming with the good-hearted, hard-working values of another time, a time when neighborly kindness thrived, a time when a neighbor's help might mean the difference between life or death.
Mary Rodgers loses her mother, father, and brother to the flu. All she has left is her cousin, Philip, who plans to leave on a wagon train for Oregon to meet his finance. After her family is buried, Mary faces the grim prospects of running the family farm by herself or marrying a neighbor who she has no interest in. Not wanting to be left alone in her parents' empty house, Mary asks Philip to take her along. He says no, that two single people traveling together would be improper. Mary doesn't give up easily, and comes up with the plan that they would pose as a married couple. Finally, Philip agrees and swears her to secrecy about the pretend marriage, a heavy burden when Mary falls for the trail guide, Luke Sayer.
In spite of the grief she has over the loss of her family, Mary consistently contributes to the success of the trip through hard work, genuine concern, and true friendship. She faces the many trail hardships with courage and determination. Even with the tragic losses in Mary's life and the hardships of the trail, Walk The Promise Road has a kind, gentle quality to it. Ms. Schroeder has written a delightful and inspirational story. I could easily imagine myself on the trail. I wanted to be there on that trail, walking beside the wagon train. The story made me want to live better, to be a better person. Walk The Promise Road is one of the best novels I've read in a long time. I highly recommend it.
Anne Schroeder has written a well-researched historical novel set on the Oregon Trail in 1848. Walk The Promise Road is full of authentic detail, young wisdom, and amazing courage. It is brimming with the good-hearted, hard-working values of another time, a time when neighborly kindness thrived, a time when a neighbor's help might mean the difference between life or death.
Mary Rodgers loses her mother, father, and brother to the flu. All she has left is her cousin, Philip, who plans to leave on a wagon train for Oregon to meet his finance. After her family is buried, Mary faces the grim prospects of running the family farm by herself or marrying a neighbor who she has no interest in. Not wanting to be left alone in her parents' empty house, Mary asks Philip to take her along. He says no, that two single people traveling together would be improper. Mary doesn't give up easily, and comes up with the plan that they would pose as a married couple. Finally, Philip agrees and swears her to secrecy about the pretend marriage, a heavy burden when Mary falls for the trail guide, Luke Sayer.
In spite of the grief she has over the loss of her family, Mary consistently contributes to the success of the trip through hard work, genuine concern, and true friendship. She faces the many trail hardships with courage and determination. Even with the tragic losses in Mary's life and the hardships of the trail, Walk The Promise Road has a kind, gentle quality to it. Ms. Schroeder has written a delightful and inspirational story. I could easily imagine myself on the trail. I wanted to be there on that trail, walking beside the wagon train. The story made me want to live better, to be a better person. Walk The Promise Road is one of the best novels I've read in a long time. I highly recommend it.
May 10, 2018
Once you bury your flu-killed parents and climb aboard a Conestoga bound for Oregon Territory—or rather, you board Anne Schroeder’s book about orphaned cousins joining up with a motley wagon-train bound for Oregon— you’re hooked. Just as hordes of hopefuls who left behind practically everything, including in some cases health and sanity, you may be swept into an increasingly swift maelstrom of hopes jeopardized, will tested, love challenged. Schroeder invests so much historical detail and filtered through self into her writing, that you feel like you’re there as Mary Rodgers, aided by a taciturn half-breed trail boss who’s drawn to her, she rides out storms and epiphanies of every kind on the trail—including betrayal and redemption by her own heart.
May 16, 2018
Take a journey along the Oregon Trail and discover a piece of our American history in a new way. Walk the Promise Road reads almost like a journal that has been reformatted into an educational storybook with a splash of a love story. The meticulous work that Anne Schroeder put into the story to make us feel all the trials and hardships along with the moments of joy and relief really shine through.
Mary, when this is done we will have made a part of history. Your journal will be read by your children and theirs. Lives will be changed because of what we did out here. A new country will be formed. Have you thought about that?
While I've always had a special fondness of Oregon Trail stories, Lucas and Mary's story has something different with how the everyday events and unique trials and adventures are brought to life. Traveling westward to settle new lands definitely wasn't a glamorous expedition. I think I was just as relieved as the emigrants to finally arrive in Oregon City and find a soothing place to be restored and settled!
Maybe the trail is like life itself. If you knew what was in store up ahead, you might not even have the nerve to start, but having no choice, you do your best; and in the end, you triumph through your own grit.
Mary, when this is done we will have made a part of history. Your journal will be read by your children and theirs. Lives will be changed because of what we did out here. A new country will be formed. Have you thought about that?
While I've always had a special fondness of Oregon Trail stories, Lucas and Mary's story has something different with how the everyday events and unique trials and adventures are brought to life. Traveling westward to settle new lands definitely wasn't a glamorous expedition. I think I was just as relieved as the emigrants to finally arrive in Oregon City and find a soothing place to be restored and settled!
Maybe the trail is like life itself. If you knew what was in store up ahead, you might not even have the nerve to start, but having no choice, you do your best; and in the end, you triumph through your own grit.
July 23, 2018
I could feel the dust and grime of the trail when I read Anne Schroeder’s Walk the Promise Road: A Novel of the Oregon Trail.
When Mary Rodgers’mother, father and little brother die from an influenza epidemic, she’s not only heartbroken, she’s alone in the world. She does have her cousin Philip, but he’s soon to leave Illinois to join his fiancé in Oregon. Mary, not quite eighteen, is determined to have a life, not be married off to someone she doen’t even love. She convinces her cousin that she could join him, that they could travel as a married couple. After all, they have the same last name. There would be no way a wagon train would take a young woman without a husband–it would be unseemly, and could cause trouble among the single men. Philip, not much older than Mary, could not be considered a proper escort. Philip resists, but Mary convinces him that it would not only work, but that she would be an asset on the trip, a helpmate.
It’s April, 1848 when they meet their travel companions in Independence, Missouri. The wagonmaster and Lucas Sayer, his half-Indian trail scout, assemble the 117 people and their 61 wagons and set out for the 2,000-mile journey. Mary and Philip’s secret seems to work, and they are known as “the Rodgers” and assumed to be husband and wife.
When Lucas begins spending time at the Rogers’ fireside, Mary struggles to keep their secret. Lucas is the most desirable man she’s ever known, and it’s obvious that he feels the same about her. Other travelers notice and tongues begin to wag.
I particularly appreciated Anne Schroeder’s realistic description of the hard journey west. I’ve always loved stories about the Oregon Trail and this novel is exceptional in its authenticity. It’s amazing that the west was ever settled. Emigrants constantly struggled to move forward, bone-tired and thirsty. Wagons broke down, stock died from exhaustion, people died of disease or lack of desire to struggle on. There were always those who prepared, like Philip, and those who did not and ultimately had to depended on others. For women and many of the older children, the journey was made mostly on foot, doing everything they could to lighten the load for the mules, horses or oxen that pulled the heavy wagons. There was either not enough water, or too much water. Heartbroken women left their treasures along the trail in order to lighten the load so the beasts wouldn’t die in their traces. Travelers bickered, some went their own way, often with disastrous results. It was a long, grueling journey and the lucky ones arrived in Oregon six long months later.
Walk the Promise Road is a journey to remember.
July 24, 2018
Walk the Promise Road is not a walk in the park; it’s a dangerous arduous journey from Missouri to Oregon in covered wagons; where death is always lurking around the next bend. When Mary Rodgers decides to go west with her cousin Philip neither one of them knows what lies ahead. Philip is her only relative after her family dies of influenza. In order to travel alone with him they must let people think they are married, but Philip has a fiancée that he hopes is waiting for him in Oregon. Things get even more complicated when Mary meets Luke Sayer, the trail scout for the wagon train. He is half Indian and some people don’t trust him, but Mary and Philip do and as they become friends it’s obvious that Mary and Luke are feeling more than just friendship for each other.
Anne Schroeder has recreated the journey on the Oregon Trail with all its victories and heartaches, and the hope for a better life that drives us all. Well written, well researched a testament to the pioneer spirit. 4 stars
Anne Schroeder has recreated the journey on the Oregon Trail with all its victories and heartaches, and the hope for a better life that drives us all. Well written, well researched a testament to the pioneer spirit. 4 stars
July 14, 2018
Excellent historical novel. Vivid details, strong characters, and a intriguing plot.
June 20, 2018
Walk the Promise Road: A Novel of the Oregon Trail
An excellent book. All about how love and understanding came to a hard working man of Indian and white blood and the woman that he fell in love with . Their struggle to overcome racial barriors since she was white, and other barriors that life had in store for thee.
An excellent book. All about how love and understanding came to a hard working man of Indian and white blood and the woman that he fell in love with . Their struggle to overcome racial barriors since she was white, and other barriors that life had in store for thee.
December 24, 2019
Spectacular book!!!
This could very well become my favorite book of all time. Fantastic story line. Filled with every emotion possible. Oh I hope she has written more books like this one.
This could very well become my favorite book of all time. Fantastic story line. Filled with every emotion possible. Oh I hope she has written more books like this one.
March 17, 2022
One of the best Oregon Trail books I've read! One can tell the author's facts were well researched.
April 9, 2024
Hey there, historical romance readers; here's another fabulous read.
In the sweeping vistas of the American frontier, Anne Schroeder's 'Walk the Promise Road' captures the essence of the historical romance genre with a poignant narrative that tugs at the heartstrings. The story of young Mary Rodgers, an orphaned soul with a spirit as vast as the Oregon skies, unfolds with the kind of tender care that only the most passionate historical romance readers can truly appreciate. Mary's journey is one of resilience and rebirth as she convinces her cousin to take her along on his westward journey to Oregon, where he is to marry his betrothed. The wild, untamed lands of the West promise a new beginning, but the path is fraught with challenges, not least of which is the stern wagonmaster who dictates the terms of their travel. The solution? A ruse as old as time—posing as husband and wife.
Schroeder weaves a tale that is as much about the landscapes Mary traverses as it is about the internal landscapes of her heart. The narrative is rich with historical detail, from the creak of wagon wheels to the whisper of prairie winds, immersing readers in a time when love was a luxury and survival was the ultimate goal. The romance that blossoms in 'Walk the Promise Road' is not just between people but also with life itself. It's a testament to the enduring human spirit, the kind of love born out of necessity and blooms in adversity. Mary's story is a reminder that sometimes, the most profound connections are formed not in the comfort of familiar surroundings but in the wild unknown, under the vast canvas of the starlit sky. For those who yearn for a love story that echoes the trials and triumphs of the past, 'Walk the Promise Road' is a journey worth taking. It's a story that reminds us that even in the roughest terrains, the human heart can find a home, and love can indeed flourish in the most unexpected places. So, dear readers, let us walk this promising road together, hand in hand with the characters that remind us of the enduring power of love. Pick up your copy today to enjoy all the details of Mary's new journey.
• ASIN: B0CTHQJ3FH
• Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
• Publication Date: 4/9/2024
• File Size: 3471 KB
• Print Length: 335 pages
• Genre: American Historical Romance - Action & Adventure Romance
In the sweeping vistas of the American frontier, Anne Schroeder's 'Walk the Promise Road' captures the essence of the historical romance genre with a poignant narrative that tugs at the heartstrings. The story of young Mary Rodgers, an orphaned soul with a spirit as vast as the Oregon skies, unfolds with the kind of tender care that only the most passionate historical romance readers can truly appreciate. Mary's journey is one of resilience and rebirth as she convinces her cousin to take her along on his westward journey to Oregon, where he is to marry his betrothed. The wild, untamed lands of the West promise a new beginning, but the path is fraught with challenges, not least of which is the stern wagonmaster who dictates the terms of their travel. The solution? A ruse as old as time—posing as husband and wife.
Schroeder weaves a tale that is as much about the landscapes Mary traverses as it is about the internal landscapes of her heart. The narrative is rich with historical detail, from the creak of wagon wheels to the whisper of prairie winds, immersing readers in a time when love was a luxury and survival was the ultimate goal. The romance that blossoms in 'Walk the Promise Road' is not just between people but also with life itself. It's a testament to the enduring human spirit, the kind of love born out of necessity and blooms in adversity. Mary's story is a reminder that sometimes, the most profound connections are formed not in the comfort of familiar surroundings but in the wild unknown, under the vast canvas of the starlit sky. For those who yearn for a love story that echoes the trials and triumphs of the past, 'Walk the Promise Road' is a journey worth taking. It's a story that reminds us that even in the roughest terrains, the human heart can find a home, and love can indeed flourish in the most unexpected places. So, dear readers, let us walk this promising road together, hand in hand with the characters that remind us of the enduring power of love. Pick up your copy today to enjoy all the details of Mary's new journey.
• ASIN: B0CTHQJ3FH
• Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
• Publication Date: 4/9/2024
• File Size: 3471 KB
• Print Length: 335 pages
• Genre: American Historical Romance - Action & Adventure Romance
April 21, 2020
Can a "supposedly Married" Woman find her Forever 💞 on the Oregon Trail? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I've always enjoyed Oregon Trail Stories, because I'm a 2nd generation native Oregonian. I especially liked this Story because it's set in 1848, just as "gold" was discovered in California. Anne Schroeder presents authentic facts, in her Engrossing and Entertaining, Sweet, American Historic, Romance, "Walk The Promise Road".
Many men in early 1800s USA spoke of Oregon as the "Promised Land". But most didn't travel there, unless their wives got behind the idea. The families that prepared the best for the trip, had the best chance of making it to Oregon. This is a Novel about one Family's Journey!
Philip and Mary Rogers are 1st Cousins. Mary convinces Philip to take her to Oregon with him, after she looses her whole family to the Flu. They leave Ohio in early March, and learn/experience many new things, privations, and dangers on their trip.
Luke is the Scout for the Wagon Train the Rogers sign onto. He's and Mary are drawn to each other, but she's "married". How does that impact Luke's behavior toward Mary? How does this impact Mary's behavior toward Luke?
Mary's lack of vigilance leads to what? How is Philip fatally injured? How is he saved? What happens after news of "gold" in California, reaches the Wagon Train? Do Luke, Mary, & Philip make it to Oregon City in 6 months? Do Mary & Luke get their HEA? I Highly Recommend You Read this Outstanding, Romantic Action/Adventure Story, to find the answers!! ❤️📖
I've always enjoyed Oregon Trail Stories, because I'm a 2nd generation native Oregonian. I especially liked this Story because it's set in 1848, just as "gold" was discovered in California. Anne Schroeder presents authentic facts, in her Engrossing and Entertaining, Sweet, American Historic, Romance, "Walk The Promise Road".
Many men in early 1800s USA spoke of Oregon as the "Promised Land". But most didn't travel there, unless their wives got behind the idea. The families that prepared the best for the trip, had the best chance of making it to Oregon. This is a Novel about one Family's Journey!
Philip and Mary Rogers are 1st Cousins. Mary convinces Philip to take her to Oregon with him, after she looses her whole family to the Flu. They leave Ohio in early March, and learn/experience many new things, privations, and dangers on their trip.
Luke is the Scout for the Wagon Train the Rogers sign onto. He's and Mary are drawn to each other, but she's "married". How does that impact Luke's behavior toward Mary? How does this impact Mary's behavior toward Luke?
Mary's lack of vigilance leads to what? How is Philip fatally injured? How is he saved? What happens after news of "gold" in California, reaches the Wagon Train? Do Luke, Mary, & Philip make it to Oregon City in 6 months? Do Mary & Luke get their HEA? I Highly Recommend You Read this Outstanding, Romantic Action/Adventure Story, to find the answers!! ❤️📖
Read
October 2, 2020I'm re-reading my Oregon Trail novel, Walk the Promise Road, to curb my COVID restlessness. It was so difficult when I was researching this novel, to be jetting from one camp to the next on my BMW motorcycle at 70 miles an hour. We could cover in 15 minutes what it took the immigrants a whole day to manage. The GUILT! We experienced thunderstorms, lightning, hail and heat in the days we retraced the trail. My story is factual and filled with intense, honest relationships and sorrow. No punches pulled. A sweet romance on the gritty side, if that makes sense. I've argued with male western writers about semi-colons. It's my opinion that women readers think more complex and enjoy complicated sentences and thoughts. So I use them--a lot. And dashes. I enjoy a good em-dash to spice up the page. Mostly I enjoy writing a story of the heart that defines truth and hardship, a story that will stick with readers. I hope my fans agree that Walk the Promise Road nails it.
August 8, 2022
Luke and Mary
This is an absolutely wonderful tale of a hard, sad, exciting, adventurous, love story. Cholera takes Mary’s mother, father and younger brother leaving her heart broken and alone. Her cousin tells her he is going to Oregon, and all the wonderful adventures and opportunities that lay there. She persuaders him to pose as Mr and Mrs as that’s the only way for her to go too. He finally agrees and their great and life altering adventure begins. Luke is a of mixed blood, half white and half Indian and is the scout for the wagon train. Luke has had a hard life because of his heritage, but he’s an excellent scout and becomes their good friend. They loose several friends on the trail, she is kidnapped by Indians, along with several other tragedies, more lost lives, hunger and illness. If you enjoy this type of reading adventure Anne Schroeder will not disappoint you.
This is an absolutely wonderful tale of a hard, sad, exciting, adventurous, love story. Cholera takes Mary’s mother, father and younger brother leaving her heart broken and alone. Her cousin tells her he is going to Oregon, and all the wonderful adventures and opportunities that lay there. She persuaders him to pose as Mr and Mrs as that’s the only way for her to go too. He finally agrees and their great and life altering adventure begins. Luke is a of mixed blood, half white and half Indian and is the scout for the wagon train. Luke has had a hard life because of his heritage, but he’s an excellent scout and becomes their good friend. They loose several friends on the trail, she is kidnapped by Indians, along with several other tragedies, more lost lives, hunger and illness. If you enjoy this type of reading adventure Anne Schroeder will not disappoint you.
April 18, 2024
A good story about a young woman Mary, who goes with her cousin Philip, across the country on the Oregon Trail. His intended, Laurel went to Oregon the previous year with her family. This is a personal story full of the everyday details of life on the trail… the hardships, tragedy and perseverance of those who made it to Oregon and those who did not.
Although Mary and Philip are pretending to be married so she can make the journey, she slowly becomes attracted to the scout, Lucas. He’s of mixed heritage, NA and white. He has feelings for her, and they have to hide their deepening attraction. Their romance suffers thru a bit of mistrust and lack of communication. This is a closed door HR with a heartwarming ending.
Detailed research by the author about life on the Oregon Trail adds to the richness of the story. Walk the Promise Road is of the best HRs I’ve read with the focus on traveling the Oregon Trail.
Although Mary and Philip are pretending to be married so she can make the journey, she slowly becomes attracted to the scout, Lucas. He’s of mixed heritage, NA and white. He has feelings for her, and they have to hide their deepening attraction. Their romance suffers thru a bit of mistrust and lack of communication. This is a closed door HR with a heartwarming ending.
Detailed research by the author about life on the Oregon Trail adds to the richness of the story. Walk the Promise Road is of the best HRs I’ve read with the focus on traveling the Oregon Trail.
February 6, 2022
Amazingly good book!
I have read many Oregon Trail books, and I am often disappointed that the writer did not research the route, time period, or what has actually been 'the norm' for an average traveller. Ms. Schroeder did all those things well enough to please a picky historian!
This book was fairly easy to read, but I read it slowly so I could savor the ride and see nature and yearning to the depth the main characters do. Just Beautiful, and finishes with realism, not Disney's perfection or easy happily ever afters...and no brides get pregnant with two honeymoon babies.
I have one little picky issue with a few scattered sentences about a horse. To sum it up, the gestation time for horses is not 5 months. A mare is pregnant for 11 or more months
I have read many Oregon Trail books, and I am often disappointed that the writer did not research the route, time period, or what has actually been 'the norm' for an average traveller. Ms. Schroeder did all those things well enough to please a picky historian!
This book was fairly easy to read, but I read it slowly so I could savor the ride and see nature and yearning to the depth the main characters do. Just Beautiful, and finishes with realism, not Disney's perfection or easy happily ever afters...and no brides get pregnant with two honeymoon babies.
I have one little picky issue with a few scattered sentences about a horse. To sum it up, the gestation time for horses is not 5 months. A mare is pregnant for 11 or more months
November 4, 2021
Great book. Enjoyed the history and details of the wagon train trip. I was afraid the trip would get repetitive, but I was wrong. Anne Schroeder was able to keep the pace moving and the scenes exciting.
I love reading historical fiction with romance and adventure. Thanks Anne for a great read.Walk the Promise Road: A Novel of the Oregon TrailAnne Schroeder
I love reading historical fiction with romance and adventure. Thanks Anne for a great read.Walk the Promise Road: A Novel of the Oregon TrailAnne Schroeder
June 2, 2021
A realistic look at the hardships endured by early settlers traveling by wagon train from the east coast to Oregon-the promised land. A nineteen-year-old girl grieving the loss of her parents becomes a woman on this 2,500-mile journey. She delivers babies, nurses people with the fever, gets kidnapped by Indians and becomes accustomed to the scent of death. Somehow amidst the suffering romance blooms between Mary and a half-Indian scout. A well-written and informative account of what it was really like on the Oregon Trail.
May 5, 2022
Normally I don't care for romances, but this was so full of excellent research well applied to the story that I enjoyed it all the way to the predictable end, which was why I gave this fascinating journey four stars. If you are into romance and want to know what it was like to travel the Oregon Trail, this is the book for you.
Don't expect multi-dimensional characterization or complex plot building though, as you won't find it here.
Happy reading.
Don't expect multi-dimensional characterization or complex plot building though, as you won't find it here.
Happy reading.
April 14, 2024
I really enjoyed the story. I believe it really portrayed the joys and heartache of the Oregon Trail for the early travelers going to the Promised Land. You could almost suffer with them as well as enjoy the happy parts of the story. I believe the author did a fantastic job researching the Oregon Trail and writing the story as it might have happened. I highly recommend this story for early western history buffs.
February 1, 2022
Fantastic
Read it but I warn you..you can't say I'll go to bed after this chapter because you will read the book! I am thankful that I didn't have to brave drought, floods and Indian attacks. I wouldn't have made it. The book is so detailed of each scene that you will feel like you have taken the journey yourself!
Read it but I warn you..you can't say I'll go to bed after this chapter because you will read the book! I am thankful that I didn't have to brave drought, floods and Indian attacks. I wouldn't have made it. The book is so detailed of each scene that you will feel like you have taken the journey yourself!
May 21, 2020
Very good book
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because she said a Meadowlark pretended to have a broken wing to protect it's next, that's the wrong bird, the bird they were describing is a Killdeer!
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because she said a Meadowlark pretended to have a broken wing to protect it's next, that's the wrong bird, the bird they were describing is a Killdeer!
March 7, 2021
Amazing
The story is well researched of the history of the time including the gold rush. All the bad luck on the trail and some happiness too. Strongly recommend everyone read this book.
The story is well researched of the history of the time including the gold rush. All the bad luck on the trail and some happiness too. Strongly recommend everyone read this book.
July 20, 2022
Walk the promise road
How did those people survive it was one calamity after the other. They certainly had more courage and fortitude than we have. They also made us feel how lucky we are today
How did those people survive it was one calamity after the other. They certainly had more courage and fortitude than we have. They also made us feel how lucky we are today
November 24, 2018
Well written, I felt like I was with them on their trip.
Hopefully she will write more pioneer stories.
Thanks for sharing. And if you want to e a great story, read this book.
Hopefully she will write more pioneer stories.
Thanks for sharing. And if you want to e a great story, read this book.
March 23, 2020
Enjoyable. Good storyline
July 30, 2020
A wonderful read
This was a wonderful read. The story caught me and makes me want to read more about all the characters, and what happened next.
This was a wonderful read. The story caught me and makes me want to read more about all the characters, and what happened next.
July 26, 2022
Sandy read this
Excellent read with some Very heart-ache turning into heart-warming love!
About overcoming hardships into heart-aches, & losses with a wonderful loving end!
Excellent read with some Very heart-ache turning into heart-warming love!
About overcoming hardships into heart-aches, & losses with a wonderful loving end!
February 2, 2023
Enjoyed
Enjoyed reading this book and travelling along the trail with the characters. Very interesting and thought provoking about the difficulties people faced.
Enjoyed reading this book and travelling along the trail with the characters. Very interesting and thought provoking about the difficulties people faced.
May 27, 2024
I was looking for a book like Where the Lost Wander but this was just okay.
Read
September 17, 2021FACEBOOK
TRAIInww And I'm jus
TRAIInww And I'm jus
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Displaying 1 - 30 of 31 reviews