A Review of Watchfires Against The Lord

Ben Thomas

How would the Christian God be perceived by Native Americans who made a genuine effort to understand Christianity? This is the intriguing theme on which this book opens - and it's a theme that, in the beginning at least, offers many more questions than answers. J. Mikhael Adams has a sharp eye for detail, and anchors his story firmly in the sights, sounds and smells of the nineteenth-century American frontier. I'm ready to find out more.