The Legend of Sotoju Mountain

by Henry, Will

• ISBN13: 9781587244346
• ISBN10: 1587244349
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc

Summary

Will Henry is "widely regarded as the finest Western historical novelist of all time" (Rocky Mountain News). This collection brings together three of his finest American Indian stories. "The Friendship of Red Fox" is a tale of the time when small bands of Oglala Sioux were escaping the Pine Ridge Reservation and heading for Canada to join up with Sitting Bull, now a fugitive. To distract pursuing Pony Soldiers, the Oglala bands made war on the frontier settlers. "The Rescue of Chuana" follows the dangerous attempt by Nino, better known as the Apache Kid, to rescue his beloved Apache maiden from the Indian school in New Mexico Territory where she is a virtual prisoner. And "The Legend of Sotoju Mountain" tells the story of Ousta the Limper and her grandson, Tonkalla the Mouse. Believed to be possessed by an evil spirit, the pair is banished from their tribe. They have only one hope of returning, this grandmother of seventy winters and the young brave only in his thirteenth summer: they must find and defeat Mato Sapa, the giant black grizzly of Sotoju Mountain. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

The Friendship of Red Fox	9	(50)
The Rescue of Chuana	59	(30)
The Legend of Sotoju Mountain	89