The June Rise: the Apocryphal Letters of Joseph Antoine Janis

Tremblay, William; Joseph Antoine Janis

ISBN 10: 087421176X / ISBN 13: 9780874211764

Published by Utah State University Press, Logan, UT, 1994

About this Item

First Edition. Trade PB in photo wraps. Near Fine w/bent bottom corner throughout; square w/flat spine and firm binding, interior clean and unmarked. viii, 233pp. 233 p.

Seller Inventory # 032771

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The June Rise: the Apocryphal Letters of Joseph Antoine Janis
• Publisher: Utah State University Press, Logan, UT
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087421176X
• ISBN 13: 9780874211764
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction
  • History

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Synopsis

Sweeping from the austere beauty of the Rocky Mountains to the high plains, The June Rise brings to life the true story of Joseph Antoine Janis's visionary transformation from a Missouri farmboy to an advisor to Lakota chief, Red Cloud. Author William Tremblay creates a riveting collection of imagined letters by Janis that chronicle this pioneer's apprenticeship to his father in the beaver trade and his marriage with First Elk Woman, an Oglala holy woman, all the while capturing the spirit of the land in poetic descriptions, even as it becomes a killing ground during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. The story turns to tragedy when his mixed-race sons, Pete and Willie, are murdered by the mixed-race sons of Janis's nemesis, John Reeshaw. After the battle of Little Big Horn, the U.S. government issued Janis an ultimatum: divorce First Elk Woman and keep his homestead in Colorado, or relinquish his land and share her fate in the Badlands of Pine Ridge Reservation. The compelling forces that shape his decision form a classic story of the American frontier. This novel is, above all, a love story of the first order.

From the Publisher

An epic story of Antoine Janis, a real-life "mountain man" unlike any buckskin figure ever created by Hollywood or the dime novel.