"The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" is full of thoroughly researched minutiae about wagon trains, Indian ways, gold mining, life in the San Francisco of the time, and such, and is delivered in a cheerful, funny, and headlong prose that makes its unabashed theatricality a total delight.

Winthrop Sargeant, "Books: 'The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1958 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), March 22, 1958, p. 154.