Tie my bones to her back / Robert F. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Robert F., 1934-2002.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Great Plains--Fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Great Plains.

Indians of North America--Wars--Fiction.

Indians of North America--Wars.

Women pioneers--Great Plains--Fiction.

Women pioneers.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Adventure fiction.

Western stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 271 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.

Summary:

At the heart of Robert F. Jones's galloping new novel is the near decimation of America's vast buffalo herd, which triggered the last and bloodiest Indian War in history. Left homeless by the panic of 1873, thousands of Americans like Jenny Dousmann headed West to recoup their fortunes in buffalo hides and bones. After joining her older brother, Otto, on the Buffalo Range, along with McKay, a Confederate veteran who blames himself for the death of Stonewall Jackson, Jenny is brutally raped, and her brother is crippled during a blizzard. A half-breed Cheyenne, Two Shields, leads them north into the Big Horn Mountains to salvage their lives among his People. Now known as Yellow-Haired Woman and the Wolf Chief, Jenny and Otto join Two Shields on a quest for vengeance. A riveting adventure story, at once savage and lyrical, Tie My Bones to Her Back is a searing indictment of ecological folly and historical revisionism, and a disturbing foray into the nature of violence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [273]).

ISBN:

0374277591

OCLC:

33900054