Buffalo Gal was one of my favorite books when I was young. So when I recently discovered it on my bookshelf, I had to see if it was as good as I remembered. Happily, I wasn’t disappointed! 

Set in 1904, this delightful adventure opens with fifteen-year-old Amanda bemoaning how her summer has begun. She’s stuck with her mother in the wild Texas frontier looking for some buffalo! Author Bill Wallace creates a strong female lead, a teenager who starts her journey a bit spoiled and impatient, but grows leaps and bounds by the end of the book. With a breathtaking horse race, intense buffalo stampede, crippling storm and a rattlesnake attack, the story’s action never ends. Humor and a sweet romance will also make readers glad they gave Buffalo Gal a try. 
Content Analysis:

Profanity/Language: None

Violence/Gore: An individual is hit in the nose; a buffalo gores a character’s leg and a horse; a buffalo charges and hits two characters; a character shoots a buffalo.

Sex/Nudity: A few accounts of kissing and hand-holding; a reference to buffalo mating; a female’s white shirt is described as being see-through.

Mature Subject Matter:

Animal activism 

Alcohol / Drug Use:

A few characters smoke; it is implied that an adult will drink alcohol to numb the pain of receiving stitches.