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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
The tough mountain man called Preacher was once a young boy named Art back in those times of the mid-1800's when this country was young. Preacher learned by experience how to fight off the Blackfoot Native Americans who were highly hostile to white men's intrusion upon their lands. But he got his name when they had captured him and planned on burning him at the stake in the morning, but the non-stop talk he gave them earned him his freedom and the name "Preacher". Now Preacher is older and there is silver in his hair, but he survives in the western territories with his horse and large, beastly Dog. Preacher meets up with a small wagon train that is herding horses to the newly built Fort Gifford. The wagon train leader is Wiley Courtland and together they fend off Blackfoot who are led by Red Knife who has an especially deep hatred of white men. Enduring fight after fight with the Blackfoot, Preacher, Courtland and his men and horses reach Fort Gifford whose leader is Ethan Langley. Langley is happy to learn Preacher's ways of fighting off Blackfoot but he's brought his beautiful wife, Judith, to stay by his side in these dangerous wilds of the American west.
"The First Mountain Man: Preacher's Massacre" is part of a well-written and thrilling series created by the nephew of the orginal author, William Johnstone, now deceased. Preacher is a larger-than-life but totally believable main character for this story, and all the other characters, Preacher's friends Harrigan and Brown, Wiley Courtland, Ethan and Judith Langely are believable and suit the story line well. Dialogue is realistic and suited to the times back then. Preacher's knowledge of how to understand the Blackfoot and the rough landscape of the western territories as they were back then is authentic and readers and lovers of literature about our American west will want to put this series on their list of "must-reads".
