Title: Excellent adventure, but a little too verbose
Product review: Pretty excellent, full of lots of drama and incident. It's also got quite a lot of excess verbosity, too (maybe the success of Ross's "First Settlers" went to his head). There's a lot of, "I just told you about such-and-such and now I'm going to tell you about some-other-such", which is really irritating.It's still an amazing read by a guy who was really there. And the part where he's leading a huge, and somewhat unruly, party of men, women, children and horses and decides to try and force his way through a mountain pass that's 18 miles long and is covered with snow 7 feet deep for much of the way is nothing short of mind-boggling.I read the PDF of the first, 1855, edition, so I can't completely vouch for the edition given here. I'm a little surprised to see it's listed as only being 300 pages long when the edition I read was 575, not including the appendixes. Maybe this modern edition edits out some of the verbosity, or the print's just a lot smaller.
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