Catch Colt

Larson, Sidner J, Dr., PH. D

ISBN 10: 0803229089 / ISBN 13: 9780803229082

Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1995

About this Item

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Fine in fine dust jacket. 1 Text in Chinese, English. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 164 p. American Indian Lives. Audience: General/trade. chieng pp.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0006965

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catch Colt
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803229089
• ISBN 13: 9780803229082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

“I was born with pierced ears,” writes Sidner Larson, “something Grovons believe signifies the rebirth of a very old Indian.” Larson was a catch colt—a child born to an unmarried Gros Ventre woman. In this rapid and candid autobiography Larson describes his youth in Montana, in apartments and ranch houses. He lived at various times with his mother, his aunt, and his grandmother, but always without his father, whom he wondered about for years.

 

Eventually Larson found his father, but he first found himself, and that took more time and trouble. Along the way he experienced schools that didn’t like Indians and career counselors eager to diminish his expectations. He also found friends to box, to play baseball with, and to drink with.

 

By keeping his head and sense of humor he got along. He bought a bar and protected it with his fists. He went to the University of Minnesota law school and became a lawyer, seeing the law from the other side and not liking it any better from there. He returned to university studies for a doctorate in American literature, feeling at last closer to work that touched him.

 

Cheerful, appreciative, and clear sighted, Catch Colt is a romp through modern American Indian life, told by someone who knows both its thrills and its bruises.

 

About the Authors

Sidner Larson, an assistant professor of Native American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Oregon, has published essays in American Indian Culture and Research Journal and other journals. Catch Colt is his first book.

Sidner J. Larson is an assistant professor of English at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.