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Title: An Angry Drum Echoed
"Mary Musgrove practically leaps off the page and demands equal rights. I also found the settlers and Native Americans fairly depicted and fully realized. Your eye for historical detail is precise and thorough. An engrossing and entertaining read, as well as an important piece of history that deserves to be explored. I couldn't put it down, and wouldn't hesitate to give it to young girls looking for a role model."
Writer's Digest
"The careful description of the Creek culture and the accounts of the difficulties of the early settlements provide a wealth of information about the life of a remarkable woman and the beginning of a new nation."
Arnco Sargent Elementary School Grade Level GPS books
"I am writing to tell you that I absolutely loved An Angry Drum Echoed. I admire Mary Musgrove so much! I went to Savannah for the day and I felt I knew James Oglethorpe and his love and dream for that city. Then I bought Neptune's Honor. Our St. Simons condo is right across from Neptune Park and I now feel I know him and his touching story. What an amazing person he was! Both books have made my visit to St. Simons and Savannah come alive with history. Thank you, Pamela for researching and writing these books."
Barbara Parke
Historical Fiction advocate
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
" 'Georgia's own Pocahontas' helped settlers and Native Americans get along in peace. Especially good for middle and older readers."
Atlanta Journal Constitution
"Readers may have little background knowledge of this woman and the times in which she lived, but the careful description of the Creek culture and the accounts of the difficulties of the early settlements provide a wealth of information about the life of a remarkable woman and the beginning of a new nation. Recommended for junior/senior high school students."
Janis Flint-Ferguson
Assoc. Prof., English
Gordon College
Wenham, MA/KLIATT
"Ms. Mueller has narrated An Angry Drum Echoed in the first person, transporting the reader to Mary Musgrove's time and location. The author carefully researched historical details, providing information most history textbooks are not equipped to include. Illustrations of General Oglethorpe, Chief Tomochichi and his nephew are followed by a map of St. Simons Island in 1742 and plans for the development of Savannah, Georgia. Ms. Mueller also provides a useful list of sources and glossary terms. This story commemorates Mary's commitment to both Indian and English interest."
KaaVonia Hinton
Foreword Magazine
"Ms. Mueller's latest book is historical fiction and it's another winner. She brings history to life in this fascinating book and her writing style is clear and concise, making it appropriate for all ages. Pamela has a knack for taking her readers to those historical times that everyone has heard about but really knows very little. An Angry Drum Echoed is a long overdue look at one of the greatest women in Georgia's history."
Cary Knapp
Georgia's Coastal Illustrated
"A lynchpin figure of the burgeoning Georgia colony during the 1700s, Mary Musgrove applied her influence with Indian tribes to encourage the chiefs to meet with General Oglethorpe in the Savannah, leading to the peaceful establishment of an English colony in Indian territory. Yet despite being held in high regard by English settlers as surely as Native Americans, she became an antagonist of the newly formed colonial government. After ten years of serving as an unpaid diplomat and interpreter, she led her Creek tribesmen in a march through the streets of Savannah in search of justice. This is a fascinating dramatization of a truly remarkable and strong-willed woman's life, recommended for readers of all ages."
Midwest Book Review
December 2006
"Mary Musgrove, known to the Creek Indians as Coosaponakeesa, was the daughter of a Creek princess and an English colonist. Raised in both cultures during the early 18th century, she assisted the English as a translator and ambassador to the Native Americans living in now what is Savannah and Coastal Georgia. Mary's childhood and young adulthood are vividly described, and Mueller provides an excellent description of tension between the Creek and English cultures. Young readers will particularly appreciate the first-person descriptions of Mary's education and her transformation from a shy child to confident young woman. As Mary matures, she adapts to English ways, yet retains the faith and values of her native culture. Her life is characterized by the balance between native and colonial, and both cultures sustain her in different ways.
"Life during colonial times, particularly in rural areas of the southeastern United States was difficult; colonists faced a number of challenges, most notably disease and miscommunication with the native tribes living in the area. Mueller doesn't gloss over these challenges, and readers will be inspired by Mary's resilience in the face of personal and professional loss. "This is a quick and interesting read for junior high and high school-age students that covers and area of history that isn't commonly taught in school." Nanette Donohue
Historical Novels Review
"Pamela Bauer Mueller has once again delivered a well-researched historical novel brimming with emotion. Reading An Angry Drum Echoed became more than a means to learn history; it is a way to actually experience it."
Jeff Hoffman
Golden Isles Weekend, Issue 392
"An Angry Drum Echoed is truly wonderful, and I got lost in the story. You are walking with the best."
Linda Figueroa
"Your choice of Mary Musgrove was truly a gift to all of us 21st century readers: what a wonderful heroine she was. With all your research your brought the early 1700's alive! You didn't fail us."
Polly
A fan from Bend, Oregon
"After losing myself thoroughly in this exciting adventure into Georgia's past, my only disappointment is in having to return to reality. The story of Mary Musgrove is one of strength and faith as we follow her amazing life from her early youth with her mother's people to her successful attempt to learn of and live in her English father's world. All who read this will, I'm sure, join me in thanking Pamela Bauer Mueller for saving such an important piece of history that was nearly lost to us all."
Barbara Wadsworth
Sterling, GA
"As I read An Angry Drum Echoed, I was increasingly aware of having followed Mary all my life. You have evoked a delicious atmosphere in your story that I experienced firsthand. I was born near the Ocmulgee River and wandered through Yamacraw Bluff as a child, visiting St. Catherines Island the first time as a teenager, later returning to live on the island at age 24. One of the many brilliant moments in the story includes Mary's school report, where you skillfully summarized the white man's indebtedness to the generosity of the Indians, and then portrayed our inability to recognize and acknowledge it. The lyrical passion in your prose is powerful; a true joy to read."
Royce Hayes
Superintendent of St. Catherines Island