A review by roseleaf24
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs

3.0

I was prepared to trudge through this book; the long chapters and the comments describing it as boring and man vs. nature got my guard up. I was pleasantly surprised. There is quite a bit of plot to this story of taking logs down the river, and the characters were pretty well-developed and engaging. But of course, in this frontier story, we have Chippewa and the accompanying racism. There is a main character who is half-Chippewa and half-French who falls into the noble savage category, but groups of indigenous people are derogatory caricatures.