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"This is the story of the warriors and priests, trappers and traders, explorers and schemers who came across the frontier seeking new faith and new fortune. Here is Heron Woman of the Horn People: drawn by a curious yet powerful desire into the arms of a stranger, she gives birth to a child of destiny." "Here also are the freed slave named Washington who follows in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, choosing to live among the Comanches; and easterner Jed Sterling, who leaves the comfort of Princeton to seek his fortune in the wilderness - only to discover the price of love and survival." "These are but a few of the unforgettable characters who come alive in these pages - a boldly dramatic, vividly authentic portrait of Kansas and its heritage. A tale of conquest and tyranny, political intrigue and personal betrayal, romance, revenge, and revelation, Tallgrass captures as never before all the grandeur of the great North American prairie."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Don Coldsmith is an award-winning author of twenty-nine books in the Spanish Bit Series, including "Medicine Hat" & "The Lost Band: A Novel", also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Taking a break from his Spanish Bit Saga (Bearer of the Pipe, etc.), Coldsmith delivers a meticulously detailed, sweeping tale of Native American life and the gradual encroachment by the white man's world. Covering nearly 300 years of North American prairie history, the novel consists of seven loosely connected stories. The first begins in 1541, when the Spanish arrive on the continent and peacefully encounter the Pani tribe. At this time, Heron Woman conceives a child with a Spaniard, the first of many unions in the book. More than 100 years later, tensions arise between the natives and the settlers, resulting in conflict and massacre. The stories continue with a French ambassador in 1724; the heirs of Lewis and Clark and further expeditions in the West; the legacy of Daniel Boone; and the opening of commerce and the Santa Fe Trail in the 1820s. They end in 1835, when a Princeton dropout, who has been living with a Native American tribe, returns home to "civilization" for a brief visit. Coldsmith is a master storyteller, who here offers a colorful and clever lesson in history, bringing to life the experience of people discovering, trusting and adapting to each other in uncertain and wondrous times. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
The author of the acclaimed "Spanish Bit Saga" (e.g., Bearer of the Pipe, Doubleday, 1995) returns with a tale about Spanish conquistadors and Native Americans. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
