This book has been lauded as one of the best in Western American literature, expressing accurately the perspective of Native American Plains tribes, specifically the Blackfeet. I think relating to historical accuracy that praise is deserved, but in terms of quality storytelling this book didn't w...
For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, beco...
He had been dreaming and he looked at the darkness and for a moment thought he hadn’t come back. But from where? And where was he now? He was lying on his back in the dark and he remembered that he had eaten soup twice during daylight. He had awoken and a pale woman in a white face covering had f...