Dan Strawn

Lame Bird's Legacy (Nez Perce Collection, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rides Well suffers the loss of his wife, rides away and becomes a legend among his people.

Otter raises his brother's orphaned son and foresees tragedy.

Lame Bird pursues his youthful vision and discovers his destiny in the midst of war.

Isaac Ramsey flees the tragedies of home and finds himself a Private in the First Cavalry.

General Howard struggles with failure as he chases the Nez Perce across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.

Sergeant Adkins confronts his conscience when duty and ethics collide.

Pronghorn sees opportunity for glory in the travails of his enemythe Nez Perce.

These characters' lives become intertwined in the drama and pathos of the 1877 Nez Perce War.

Readers will discover truths about all wars and how they influence the lives of ordinary people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dan Strawn
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223684848
• Artikelnr.: 67983111

Autorenporträt

Dan Strawn took up creative writing after a long career in business and education.

In addition to Strawn's longer works, his stories and essays have been published in a number of editions of Idaho Magazine and Trail Blazer Magazine. His short story "Son" was a first-place winner in Idaho Magazine's 2014 Short Fiction Contest. His essay "Everyman's Smalltown" was a finalist in the University of Oregon's 2005 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. His novel Black Wolf's Return was nominated for a 2014 book award by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.

ArtChowder Magazine featured Strawn's creative writing ventures in their Nov/Dec 2023 issue. Check it out by going to ArtChowder.com and selecting the Nov/Dec issue in the issues bar in the left-hand margin.

Strawn is a life member of the AT&T Pioneers and a member of the Nez Perce National Historic Trail Foundation. He served as a member of the Foundation's board of directors for several years.

Strawn volunteered for over ten years in the early 2000s as an interpreter of the Nez Perce experience for the Nez Perce National Park and the Oregon State Park.

He currently lives in Vancouver, Washington.

Between 2005 and 2015, he taught courses for the Mature Learning division at Clark Community College in Vancouver. In 2008 he took his students to eastern Oregon and Idaho, where they experienced first-hand the Nez Perce story they had been studying.