In the December 2008 issue of School Library Journal, reviewer Madeline Walton-Hadlock writes of Helen Hemphill's The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones: “Hemphill’s convincing vernacular narration and well-researched, hard-bitten details of life in the South and on the western range give this adventure story surprising depth. The fast-paced plot, punctuated by Prometheus’s astonishing wins and losses, will lasso readers’ interest.”