Killer of Witches: The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache (Thorndike Large Print Western Series) - Hardcover

Farmer, W. Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410485455 ISBN 13: 9781410485458

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016

Synopsis

Killer of Witches is a powerful story, truth told through fiction that transports the reader to a different culture and time. It is the other side of Apache history, lived by a people fighting the tsunami of Americans migrating west and the terrors of their supernatural insights.

About this title

About the Author

W. Michael Farmer, a member of the Western Writers of America, learned about the rich mosaic of historic figures depicted in his books while living in Las Cruces, New Mexico for fifteen years. He has a Ph.D. in Physics and has conducted atmospheric aerosol research with laser based instruments. He has published short stories in anthologies, won awards for essays, and published essays in magazines. His first novel, Hombrecito's War, won a Western Writers of America Silver Spur Award for Best First Novel in 2006 and was a New Mexico Book Award Finalist for Historical Fiction in 2007. His other novels include: Hombrecito's Search, Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: The Betrayals of Pancho Villa, and Conspiracy: The Trial of Oliver Lee and James Gililland.

Review

"It is about time a western writer includes an Apache as the central hero in an expansive story of hard and deadly times. Michael Farmer has created a major character, Yellow Boy, caught between two worlds. He suffers and triumphs as he tries to protect his people. Clever, follower of the ancient ways, yet knowing he has to adjust, Yellow Boy is bold, and pushes the boundaries we all understand when it comes to cultural change. More than well researched, this book is dramatic and heart rending as one follows the men and women of his band deep into the rugged and magnificent landscapes we know from Southern New Mexico to the canyon recesses of the Mexican Sierra Madre. Book 1, Killer of Witches in The Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache trilogy by Farmer is a keeper."

Lynda A. Sánchez,
Author, Historian and Educator
Coauthor with Eve Ball and Nora Henn of Award Winning, Oral Apache History, Indeh
Lincoln, New Mexico

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410485455
• ISBN 13: 9781410485458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 527