Indian Country - Softcover

Dorothy M. Johnson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803275854 ISBN 13: 9780803275850

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Synopsis

Indian Country contains two of Dorothy M. Johnson’s most famous stories. “A Man Called Horse” depicts the life of a white captive in a Crow Indian camp. “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” explains in flashback why a prominent senator appears at the funeral of an obscure western codger. Both stories were adapted into highly successful movies. These eleven stories show a frontier alive with complex struggles.

About this title

About the Author:

Dorothy M. Johnson, the Montana-based author of The Hanging Tree and Buffalo Woman, both Bison Books, brings to western fiction a clear ideal of individuality and honor.

Review:

“Dorothy Johnson presents skillfully this early frontier life. . . . Many of the stories are told from the woman’s point of view, making clear the moral and emotional resilience which made it possible for these pioneer women to survive and hold together their families and their homes. . . . Here are Western stories at their best.”—Saturday Review (Saturday Review)

“The integrity of [Johnson’s] writing never wavers. . . . No one has written with more understanding of the mountain men who first penetrated the Indian wilderness and of the white settlers who met hardship in hostile Indian territory. And no one has written with keener perception of the Indians themselves. . . . Here is no glamorizing, no romantic gilding, of settlers or of Indians. Here is something finer and more gripping, the honest portrayal of good and bad, of strength and frailty, of the admirable and contemptible, in both white settlements and Indian villages.”—Jack Schaefer, in his foreword to Indian Country (Jack Schaefer)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803275854
• ISBN 13: 9780803275850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 181