Black Hills : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from KenTorgerson

After a small, slow start with minor confusion of what is really happening, this 19th century historical novel became compelling readable and informative about Custer, the Lakota Sioux, the Black Hills, Mt Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum the scuptor, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge by the Roeblings,...

from WisteriaLeigh

Black Hills Dan Simmons A Reagan Arthur Book Hachette Book Group 9780316006989 February 24, 2010 512 pages In 1876 Paha Sapa, a young boy of ten is at Little Bighorn, during the massacre and carnage of Custer's Last Stand. His future desire is to become a wičasa wakan, a holy man. He has a gift o...

from bookswoman

I read this book as an ebook on my Droid, so it took quite a while to read, and was read mostly in 10-15 minute pieces over a couple of months. Not the normal way I read a new to me author. Still, it worked for me because the book told some old familiar stories and followed some very familiar pat...

from jo-jo

This book is full of history from early America from both a native american and a white man's point of view. Simmons sets this book during the time period of 1936, using various chapters to go back in time as Paha Sapa reflects on different parts of his life. As this book went back in time throug...

from RandyStafford

Like Frederik Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal, this is a thriller whose plot is bounded by the historical record. In the Forsyth novel, we know the Jackal's plot is not going to succeed. Charles de Gaulle is not going to be assassinated. And here we know that our hero, Paha Sapa ("Black Hills" in...