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The Good Journey

Micaela Gilchrist

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 245 Users | 45 Reviews

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Title	:	The Good Journey
Author	:	Micaela Gilchrist
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	November 12th 2002 by Simon & Schuster (first published June 26th 2001)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Literature. 19th Century. Westerns

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Inspired by actual letters, The Good Journey breathes life into history with a richly imagined chronicle of twenty tumultuous years in the marriage of two American pioneers.
Strong-willed Southern belle Mary Bullitt abandons her life of luxury in Louisville, Kentucky, when she marries General Henry Atkinson and accompanies him to his outpost on the Mississippi. Nothing has prepared her for marriage to this attractive older man -- or for the realities of frontier living. Conditions are primitive, Mary knows virtually nothing about her husband, and the threat of attack from Indians is constant. A rough and resourceful general, Henry is engaged in a long and historic clash with a great Native American leader, and his deeply conflicted feelings about Indians mirror those he and his wife have for each other.
In the tradition of Willa Cather and Edna Ferber, Micaela Gilchrist has crafted an exciting novel that is at once a love story and an action-packed depiction of the struggle for the West.

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Original Title:	The Good Journey: A Novel
ISBN:	0743223772 (ISBN13: 9780743223775)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction (2002), WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction (2002)

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Such an intriguing story set in our nation's early frontier times. Following the story of a heroine who has much to learn about her husband it is a lovely story that really explores her journey from riches to the frontier and her relationship with her husband.



This book was very impressive in the amount of research that Gilchrist completed in writing this book, both primary and secondary. The true story of the General and Mary Bullitt is amazing, and I applaud the author for "getting it right." However, it reads more a like a university press book that focuses on historical details in depth rather than a book with characters a reader can relate to. I had a hard time empathizing with any of the characters until the last 1/4 of the book. To me, it was a

rating: 2 for first 80+ pages; 3 for the rest of the bookThis is a tough review to write. I liked the idea that it was based on actual letters, and I wanted to learn something about Gen'l Atkinson, and I know very little about the tribes and the injustices of that time and place, so I saw this as my introduction to both.The Author's Note was promising:p 6: Every Sunday evening in the library of her home in Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, Mary Bullitt Atkinson wrote to her brother-in-law,

From the glowing description on the back, this looked very promising - "inspired by actual letters" and "chronicle of twenty years in the... marriage of two American pioneers" . But 30 pages into the book..and it seemed "the tradition of Willa Cather" here, was inching towards the tradition of Rosemary Rogers. That's just not my idea of a good journey. Maybe I should give it another 30 pages but I'm a firm believer in first impressions. And so many more books on the shelf, waiting

I really enjoyed this. Similar to These is my Words in that it's the story of a woman trying to survive the frontier. She is also trying to work out an imperfect marriage to a general husband that frequently leaves to try to bring peace to relations between Indians and the settlers. He is tight lipped about his past life before her and such is much of the drama of the book. Very good.

This book really was well written. I enjoyed 2/3 if it...but I didn't like the setting of the Native American/Pioneer/US Army wars. Near the end, I really didn't like it. Very depressing as I thought this was going to be a great book.