Set in south Minnesota in 1862 during the legendary Sioux uprising, here is the third book in Manfred's five-volume series, The Buckskin Man Tales. It recounts how Judith Raveling, a young widow who is taken captive by the Sioux, develops a passion that crosses all boundaries--for her savior, Sca...
The survival story of Hugh Glass is as close to mythic as is possible in reality. Several novels (WILDERNESS; REVENANT), an atrocious film (MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, which turns the Glass character into a 19th century McGyver) and an excellent biography by John Myers Myers attest to the interest Gla...
Book Four in Manfred's five-volume series Buckskin Man Tales, set in the Midwest during the 1800's. This is the saga of Magnus King, his wife and son. The story turns to Earl Ransom, found out on the prairie with no memory of how he got there, what his name is, or any part he played in the life o...
High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cannot be a man until his spiritual vision comes. When it appears, he must interpret it correctly to know who he is, and he must deserve it, or continue to be called No Name. No Name has his vision, a g...
It is a pivotal work in which he takes on several challenges, among them using fiction to illuminate history in a manner faithful to the historical record, representing a female character (and female consciousness) as the central point of view, counterposing the diverse points of view of characte...
and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father and his mother what he had done. &...
The old mother Europa? The new mother America? Katherine? Erden? The first great miracle to appear on earth was the emergence of love in the mother lizard. And the first great bewilderment to appear on earth was the emergence of taboo: having learned of love from his mothe...