Publisher's Synopsis
THE GLORY DAYS OF BUFFALO EGBERTa.k.a People of the Whistling Waters Winner of the Western Writers of America'sMedicine Pipe Bearer's Award Tall, vain, elegant, the Crow were perhaps the most handsome of the Plains tribes. They were superb horsemen and fierce mystic warriors, implacable enemies, unshakable friends. A French-Canadian trapper, Renee DeGeer was a loner before he came to the Crow. He became one of them when he married the beautiful Tall Willow, only daughter of the principal chief, and started their magnificent family. But all too soon they and the whole Whistling Water clan found themselves in a fight to the death with other tribes competing for dwindling land and facing a white culture that threatened to overwhelm them like a river in flood. Now, as surely as the sun must set, the glory days of noble warriors and roaming hunters were coming to an end.THE GLORY DAYS OF BUFFALO EGBERTA magnificent novel that brings to life the moving story of the Crow nation "A must read. If you haven't yet read it, get it.It's a fine reading experience." -Allan W. Eckert, author of That Dark and Bloody River
