Fools Crow

by James Welch, Thomas McGuane

Genres: Native American & Aboriginal; Westerns; Supernatural suspense

Synopsis

The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation.

 

"A major contibution to Native American literature." —Wallace Stegner.

Cover image courtesy of Walter McClintock Papers. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Release date: November 3, 1987

Publisher: Penguin Books

Print pages: 400