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Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Twelve brave young men set out, led by the indomitable Blue Jay, seeking a better wintering land to the mysterious south. But the quest becomes an obsession that plunges the men--and the beautiful, enigmatic woman who joins them--into a lush, deadly forest inhabited by great spotted cats and "thunder lizards, " against a man-eating people near the sea, and to a highland realm where human sacrifices are performed on a man-made mountain. To the young...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Eagle has mastered the ways of the "elk-dog"--the horse--but must learn survival when his frightened mount carries him far away and leaves him with a broken leg. Then an old man gives him shelter. Is the old man an outcast from the People--or the legendary Trickster, the Man of the Shadow?
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
The Elk-Dog People have two new members, former soldiers in the French Army. Fully assimilated into the tribe, they travel to Santa Fe to help the group trade pelts. But soon trouble starts, and the new tribesmen must defend their people.
5) Thunderstick
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Language
English
Description
Singing Wolf has reached his seventeenth summer, and the time has come to prove himself as a hunter. . . and a lover. But Singing Wolf has a rival in the hunt for buffalo and in the courtship of the beautiful woman called Rain. He is a handsome stranger from the eastern band of the People, and he has brought a weapon of extraordinary power, magic, and danger: the thunderstick. Their enemies already have the death-dealing muskets, and if the People...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Don Coldsmith, voted one of the greatest western writers of the twentieth century by the Western Writers of America, single-handedly revolutionized the Western novel with his acclaimed Spanish Bit Saga. Set in the early sixteenth century, the Spanish Bit re-creates a time, a place, and a people that have been nearly lost to history. In it we see history through the eyes of those who lived it. The Elk-Dog band has grown and prospered, yet still they...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Struggling to lead his people out of the darkness of the Stone Age, White Buffalo, the great Shaman, faces new dangers as change threatens to destroy his tribe and their traditions and the evil Gray Wolf of the Head-Splitters seeks blood vengeance.
9) Tallgrass
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
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Description
A novel of the Great Plains. This novel brings to life more than three hundred years of the region known as Kansas, crossroads of a continent. The adventure opens in 1541 with the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors, and continues through the blazing of the Santa Fe Trail in the early nineteenth century as a new world is born.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
Don Coldsmith, inducted into the Writer's Hall of Fame of America and voted one of the Greatest Western Writers of the Twentieth Century by the Western Writers of America, is one of our national treasures. He single-handedly revolutionized the Western novel with his acclaimed Spanish Bit Saga, which has more than six million copies in print. Set in the early sixteenth century, the Spanish Bit Saga re-creates a time, a place, and a people that have...
11) The sacred hills
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
From the North rides a savage tribe of warriors who kill for pleasure. When the Blue Paints attack the People, they murder the wife of Looks Far, medicine man to the People, and into his hands falls the People's only hope. He must seek the help of the People's old enemies, the Head Splitters.
12) World of silence
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Born deaf and mute, Speaks-Not lives in a world of silence apart from his people, who later rename him Hunts-Alone for his successful hunting methods. Years later, the Forest People attack his encampment and kill his family, and the old man and his surviving young granddaughter follow a path of destiny, boldly carrying the seeds of their ancient heritage into an uncertain future.
13) Buffalo medicine
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Owl, a young indian warrior, must learn honor from the ancient medicine man. Through his adventures he encounters he will travel savage lands, find romance, captivity and engage in a deadly rival.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A youth in a tribe of Plains Indians gives up a girlfriend to serve as a holy man's pipe bearer, first step in becoming a holy man himself. The novel follows his training in communicating with spirits and in preserving tribal legends and culture. By the author of Child of the Dead.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A continuation of Don Coldsmiths Spanish Bit series, The Lost Band traces the sage of the People, a fictional nation of American Plains Indians in the late eighteenth century. Annually the People celebrate the Sun Dance, and each year the Council circle leaves an empty place of honor for the Lost Band, whose members disappeared and are presumed killed in a genocidal raid in the Great Plains two hundred years earlier. This group is the Lost...
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