Terrence Rundle West
Autor de Not In My Father's Footsteps
Obras de Terrence Rundle West
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 20
- Popularidad
- #589,235
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 8
Rundle learns to travel in all kinds of weather often facing death from starvation, weather or being killed by natives on the war path as he seeks to convert the Indigenous Peoples who never go near a fort. He decides he must travel to the Indigenous villages armed only with his bible. He eventually is accepted by two powerful First Nations groups- the Blackfoot Confederacy and the Plains Cree Alliance at a time when these organizations are fighting for control of their hunting grounds and the diminishing buffalo herds.
There is a parallel narrative to Rundle's story as novelist West adds the fictional character Sees Far, a Blackfoot warrior, to illustrate what life for the Indigenous peoples was like in this transitory period as the white man became more numerous on the plains.
Rundle is an ancestor of novelist West who use Rundle's diary in his research. This novel is a pleasurable way to learn what life was for the plains tribes before the European's completely destroyed their way of life. While it is an historical novel, West includes excerpts from Rundle's diary at key moments so we can feel what Rundle did.… (más)