The Reformer's Apprentice is a wise and learned book with a great heart. 9/96, from the author of Riding the White Horse Home

Your heart will go out to Frieda, who, like so many nineteenth-century Jewish women in the west, is torn between fidelity to traditional Jewish values and the dazzling new choices available on the developing frontier." 9/96, from the author of Jewish Men/Jewish Women: The Legacy of Patriarchy

Rochlin is a superb interpreter of Jewish types and Jewish activities in the West, and her talents as a writer are impressive. 9/96, from the author of From Hopalong to Hud: Thoughts on Western Fiction