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Aurora Crossing: A Novel of the Nez Perces

Aurora Crossing: A Novel of the Nez Perces

Schlesier, Karl H.

Hardcover

Historical Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 0896726363
ISBN13: 9780896726369
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: Oct 15 2008
Pages: 391
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Awards: Independent Publisher Book Awards
n ancient creation tales of Indian tribes of the American Northwest, nasawaylu, Old Man Coyote, was the spirit who finished the world started by the Supreme Being. A master of animals, holy person, and trickster, nasawaylu sometimes bestowed special gifts on an Indian youth seeking a guardian spirit. But in the 1870s young Nez Perce John Seton struggles to determine whether Coyote's message is a gift or a trick. Reared first in an Anglo township in north central Idaho, then on the reservation, and finally on the Salmon River with the free-roving Lamtama band, Seton has always followed the fortunes of his mother. After her death he chooses to stay in the camp of old Hemene, a respected Lamtama leader. Still a novice in all three of the sharply contrasting worlds he has known, Seton is drawn irresistibly and irreversibly into the Nez Perce War of 1877. His quest to find a place in the clash of cultures is a magical saga, a search for meaning in the fabled Trickster's message. The events to which Seton is an eyewitness--such as the Nez Perce march of 1877--are recorded in history, masterfully woven here by Karl Schlesier into a fabric of compelling fiction and human drama.

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