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Title: A Cold Day in Hell: The Spring Creek Encounters, the Cedar Creek Fight With Sitting Bull's Sioux, and the Dull Knife Battle, November 25, 1876 (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0-553-29976-X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a little known event in american-indian history
Comment: This is a book that unlike most of Terry's books, started a little slow for me with the early encounters between Miles and Sitting Bull including Cedar Creek. I quickly became engrossed in the novel and the pages, as always, fell away in dramatic style until I found myself on the battlefield fleeing with Little Wolf and Dull Knife, or found myself as a soldier confronting a group of hiding Cheyennes firing piont blank. I walked this battlefield with Terry in 1996 and nobody loved their history and the people involved, both Indian and white more than Terry. He felt for the characters on both sides and makes them ever so real to the reader. Do not be fooled by the name, 'historical fiction.' This is history at its best, from the view of the people who lived, fought, and died for it. I think anyone interested should read this book and any other of Terry's books.
Rating: 1
Summary: Is he Sioux, or Cheyenne?
Comment: I have not read the book yet, butttt! In the synopsis, Crazy Horse is first called a Sioux, true, but he is actually a Lakota. Later he is called a Cheyenne, although the Cheyenne would love to call him one of their own, most novices know he was not.
Rating: 4
Summary: Heart wretching visualizations created by this author
Comment: I'm reading this novel for a history class (interesting side note: the professor is friends with Mr. Johnston) and found the novel amazingly well written. Although I find the over abundance of detail throughout the book somewhat painful, it has overall been an excellent reading experience. I don't know that I would attempt another of his novels just for the fact that the writting is somewhat tendious at times... and challenging to grasp on a whole. The story told however, is something that should be preserved accurately for future generations and Terry does this very well indeed. The scenes during the actual battle are heart wretching... enough to make even the most seasoned person feel the anguish that the indians suffered at the hands of the U.S. Calvary! Historically accurate and well written... but not something you'd want to read just for the "fun" of it... since this is anything except a "fun" topic.
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Title: Wolf Mountain Moon by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0553299778 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Ashes of Heaven: The Lame Deer Flight-- May 7, 1877 and the End of the Great Sioux War (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0312965117 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Song (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0312929218 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dying Thunder: The Fight at Adobe Walls and the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon-1874-1875 (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0312928343 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Cries from the Earth: The Outbreak of the Nez Perce War and the Battle of White Bird Canyon June 17, 1877 (Johnston, Terry C., Plainsmen, Bk. 14.) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0312969074 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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