Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

Awakening at age 40, Joseph Blue Crow looks back at the road his life has taken. Instead of choosing to carry on the ways of the Sioux people, he has traveled down the White Road of basketball, booze, women, and blues. Seeking redemption he sets out on the path of the sweat lodge, vision quest and sacred pipe. The journey takes him to Wounded Knee where he must relive the trials of his ancestors in order to understand the past and heal the present.

Literature & Fiction

Win, Blevins

United States

Forge

1862. On an ordinary day in Mormon Utah, Asie Taylor is swept away by a flash flood. Under the raging waters he hears mysterious and celestial music. He is surprised to regain consciousness at all, and astonished to wake up in the arms of an Asian woman. Have I died? Have I been transported to China? Soon he realizes his old life has been swept utterly away, and he must go exploring in this strange new world. Asie journeys with unlikely companions. Sun Moon is a Tibetan Buddhist nun, abducted and brought to the United States for purposes of prostitution. Sir Richard Burton is the famous British explorer of Africa, an addict and a madman. The new friends go adventuring in a world that is an exhilarating fusion of fiction, reality, and historical characters: As they dash from Salt Lake City across the deserts and mountains to the mining camps of the Comstock Lode and to California, Brigham Young protects them, Samuel Clemens befriends them, and the Destroying Angel of the Mormon Church, Porter Rockwell, does his best to kill them. On his great journey, Asie seeks to discover why he was named the Rock Child, what it means to be a man of color in America, what spiritual path will suit him, who his people are, and how to find his true home.

The Rock Child, A Novel of a Journey

Forge / Tom Doherty

Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

Avon Books/ A Division of The Hearst Corporation

Of all the great warriors of Native America, Crazy Horse remains the most enigmatic. Scorned from his childhood for his light hair, he was a man who spurned the love of finery and honors so characteristic of Lakota Sioux warriors. Despite these differences, Crazy Horse led his people to their greatest victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where General Custer fell. Crazy Horse's entire life was a triumph of the spirit. In youth, Crazy Horse was set aside by his powerful vision of Rider, the spiritual expression of his future greatness, and by the passion and grief of his overwhelming love for a woman. It was only in battle that his heart could find rest. As his world crumbled, Crazy Horse managed to find his way in harmony with the age-old wisdom of the Lakota—and to beat the US Army on its own terms. He lived, and died, his own man.

Contemporary

Demco Media

Discover the fascinating heritage of the Cowboy State in this comprehensive and detailed traveler's guidebook. A worthy road companion and vivid popular history, with maps, historic photos, selected readings, route and subject indexes.

History from the Highways: Wyoming (The Pruett Series)

History

Thomas, Schmidt

Americas

WestWinds Press

Did you ever need to spell "dogie" (as in, get-along-little) or need to know what a "sakey" is? This is the book that can tell you how to spell, pronounce, and define over 5,000 terms relative to the American West.
 Want to know what a "breachy" cow is? Turn to page 43 to learn that it's an adjective used to describe a cow that has a tendency to find her way through fences where she isn't supposed to be. Describes some teenagers we know!
 Spend hours perusing the dictionary at random, or read straight through to get a flavor of the West from its beginnings to contemporary days. Laced with photographs and maps, the Dictionary of the American West will make you sound like an expert on all things western, even if you don't know a dingus from a dinner plate.
 Compiled of words brought into English from Native Americans, emigrants, Mormons, Hispanics, migrant workers, loggers, and fur trappers, the dictionary opens up history and culture in an enchanting way. From "Aarigaa!" to "zopilote," the Dictionary of the American West is a "valuable book, a treasure for any literate American's library."--Tony Hillerman

Dictionary of the American West

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Texas Christian University Pre

Heaven Is a Long Way Off (The Mountain Men)

Genre Fiction

Recorded Books - Western Audio

This compact book packs a big punch. You smell hear, see, touch, taste, understand, and marvel over a huge, hairy American icon. The American bison, commonly called the buffalo, is the largest mammal of North America. Symbolically this magnificent animal has come to represent American strength and perseverance. To many Native tribes the buffalo represents the goodness of the gods, bestowed through the gift of food. From the bison beautifully depicted in ancient cave paintings to the birth of the legendary white buffalo, Buffalo offers fascinating insights into the life and lore of this great beast, whose slaughter nearly eradicated the Plains Indians. In this authoritative, handsome book, noted Western writer Win Blevins uses art, legends, and history—and draws upon his own Native American heritage—to explain why the buffalo, now back from near-extinction, has become a respected symbol of the American spirit. 35 photos. About the series: Look West: What do you find? Wide, wild landscapes...extraordinary plants and animals...rugged people rich in history...ghost towns and working ranches...ancient pueblos and ultramodern urban areas. In the West, coyotes howl. Native Americans endure and flourish. Kokopelli, the mythical humpbacked flute player, prances across the cliff dwellings and into popular culture—and thousands of curio shops. Every small, handsome book in Rio Nuevo Publishers' Look West series presents a unique aspect of the American West. Using words and pictures, each volume explores a special Western topic or phenomenon, and all have been written and illustrated by regional experts. Each of these attractive 6 x 6-inch hardcover books contains 64 pages of text, illustrations, and photographs. And each one allows the reader to capture the spirit of the West in the palm of a hand.

Buffalo (Look West)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Rio Nuevo

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