Adam’s Daughters by David Bowles

Verdict: Part two in The Westward Sagas follows the Mitchell family as it struggles during the time of the Colonial and American Revolution.

Adam’s Daughters, book two in The Westward Sagas, begins where Spring House left off, with the Mitchell family’s 100-year odyssey west from Pennsylvania to Texas.

Peggy Mitchell, a survivor of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, grows up in Jonesborough, Tennessee during the tumultuous first twenty years of the nation’s existence. Though haunted by memories of war, she matures into strong, independent young woman, a surrogate mother to her younger brothers and sisters. Together, the children of Adam and Elizabeth take on renegade Indians, highwaymen, and the hardships of an untamed land.

Reviewed by Cindy Erdesohn