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Overview
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.Editorials
Saturday 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 ReviewJack Schaefer
“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 CountryBook Details
Published
June 1, 1995
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1995]
Pages
197
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780803275850