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History of the Westward Movement by Frederick Merk (review)

As he has so often before, Manfred here tells a good story and tells it well. His clear, spare, yet vividly imagistic style is refreshing after the plethora of flashy, baroque stuff that so many writers turn out today. And the book has “charm,” a quality one rarely associates with a work by Frederick Manfred. This one has it, however, as it evokes a simpler time. The sensitivity and innocence of the book’s central character, still a virgin at twenty-two, is a reminder that more than the price of hamburger has changed since 1934.