I got it much more from her 10-year-old daughter. I know the author was trying to honor how strong the pioneering women were, but I didn't get that from Maggie. That just didn't make sense to me, especially considering that throughout all of their time traveling together they were trying to avoid being spotted by the Apaches and Mexican banditos who were causing so much trouble in the area. I also couldn't understand how she, as a mother, could keep sending her 10-year-old daughter off on her own out in the middle of the scorching desert and Apache country to boot. She didn't seem to be overly affected by tragedies other people suffered in the quest to rescue her daughter. I found her to be too selfish and coldhearted. I understood where her anger and lack of forgiveness toward Jones came from, but her rudeness, lack of charity, and unceasing intolerance to his personal beliefs grated on me. I wasn't totally fond of Maggie for several different reasons that didn't sit right with me.
There is also a thought-provoking spiritual component as well. This story is about the journey taken together and about the meaning of family, love and loyalty. Even though Maggie wants nothing to do with Jones "or his heathen ways", she has no choice but to rely on him to help rescue the girl. Maggie's husband is shot and one of her daughters is taken captive by renegade Apaches who have left the reservation. Samuel Jones, who had abandoned his white family 30 years before to live with an Apache woman, returns to his daughter, Maggie Baldwin, in order to make peace with her before he dies (of tuberculosis, I believe). Even though Maggie wants nothing to do with Jones "or his heathen ways", she has no choice bu This was a touching story full of so much heartbreak. This was a touching story full of so much heartbreak.
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