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Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all intensify Ever’s bottled-up rage. Meanwhile, all of...

When her photographic memory makes her the target of a criminal who will do anything to make her forget, Carlie Blair entrusts her life--and her heart--to a Lakota Sioux named Carson, a man she once despised. Mercenary by name and nature, Carson is a love 'em and leave 'em kind of man. He enjoys shocking his friend Cash's innocent secretary, Carlie, with tales of his debauchery. Then Carlie sees something she shouldn't have and becomes the key witness...

When Dick Rutherford loses all his money in a horse race, he asks his fiancee to wait for him while he heads into the Far West to seek his fortune.

Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic.

Custer and the Seventh march from Fort Abraham Lincoln at the same time Sitting Bull has his fateful vision of "soldiers falling into camp," both tragic figures to collide on the Little Bighorn in this tale drawn from the battlefield's archeological evidence blended with the long-ignored recollections of the warriors who crushed Custer.

"Cuno Massey had always stayed on the good side of the law. But he'd never found himself stuck in the middle of a feud between a weary old rancher and a band of Indians hungry for revenge. With warring braves surrounding the ranch and a doomed man begging for help, Cuno's the only rider left who stands a chance to save the rancher's daughter from a savage massacre."--p. [4] of cover.

While back on the trail, Breck Wallace, exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, must evade a vicious gang of trappers who are after his goods and who force him to ride deeper into the mountains than he has ever gone.