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Few names of the American frontier resonate like that of George Armstrong Custer. His fiery temperament and grand vision led him to triumph in one season and tragedy in another. Now best-selling chronicler Terry C. Johnston beings to life the Custer legacy as never before in a masterful new trilogy . . . . For a youth of the Cheyenne in the years between Little Big horn and Wounded Knee, life was brutal and dangerous. For Yellow Bird, who saw his father, George Custer, die on a show more blood-soaked field in 1876, survival is especially difficult, for--despite his own white heritage--he must live in the Cheyenne world. And so he grew to manhood, bound to his father by their warrior's spirit, preparing to fight for his home, his wife, and his own son. show lessTags
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Terry C. Johnson was born in 1947 on the plains of Kansas and has lived a varied life as a roustabout, history teacher, printer, paramedic, dog catcher, and car salesman, all the while immersing himself in this history of the early West. His first novel, CARRY THE WIND, won the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award from the Western Writer's of America, and show more his subsequent books, among them CRY OF THE HAWK, WINTER RAIN, and THE SON OF THE PLAINS TRILOGY, have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the country. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Whisper of the Wolf
- Original title
- Whisper of the Wolf
- Original publication date
- 1991-09
- Epigraph
- The Sioux thus suffered two conquests (at Wounded Knee); a military conquest and a psychological conquests. It was the latter that destroyed them as a nation and left emotional scars that persist today. But the road that en... (show all)ded in the second conquest began before the first, It began in the old life.
- Dedication
- To
Greg Tobin
more than an editor who told me how,
he is a friend who showed me why. - First words
- Icy snowflakes flung themselves across the stiffened buffalo hides of the cold lodge that rattled like nearby gunfire with each new blast of wind.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Time enough still bo follwo the seductive lure of tomorrow and hte next valley across the years to come ...
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