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Search - Winter of the Metal People: The Untold Story of America's First Indian War

Winter of the Metal People The Untold Story of America's First Indian War
Author: Dennis Herrick

The first named war between the Europeans and the Native Americans was the nearly forgotten Tiguex War, which Spaniards and their Mexican Indian allies fought in 1540-42 against the Pueblo Indians along the Rio Grande, between present-day Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico. This historical novel "Winter of the Metal People" presents the firs... more »t account of the war written from the Puebloan point of view. It follows a young Pueblo warrior who reluctantly takes leadership of his people in a time of crisis, overcoming self-doubt to lead Puebloans in successful guerilla warfare against the Spaniards. Praise for Winter of the Metal People and author Dennis Herrick ?A riveting historical novel of immense scholarship and insight. Dennis Herrick makes the story of the first American Indians in the West to face the military might of European forces as vivid and real as if Coronado?s expedition had ridden out of Mexico yesterday. Winter of the Metal People will forever influence your perception of the stunning landscapes and rich cultures of the Southwest.? ?Margaret Coel, author of Killing Custer ?In Winter of the Metal People Dennis Herrick, journalist and award-winning writer of fiction, offers us a consummately humane novel of the first encounters between Pueblo peoples of the Southwest and a European, African, and Native American expedition led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in the early 1540s. Herrick skillfully brings the Native side of those encounters into vivid focus. We are brought to imagine the complexity and variety of Pueblo reactions as they struggle to come to grips with the foreign presence and how it violently impacts their lives and traditions.? ?Richard Flint, Historian Author of No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada ?A vivid historical novel that brings to life the epic winter of 1540-41 as Spanish and Pueblo Indian worlds first collided. Herrick's narrative?driven by extant annals of the Coronado expedition, recent archaeological research, and Pueblo accounts?is the closest we will ever get to standing on a hill above an ancient Pueblo community and witnessing the gritty reality of history. It is a masterful eye opener.? ?David E. Stuart, Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Author of Prehistoric New Mexico, Anasazi America, and The Ancient Southwest ?With Winter of the Metal People Dennis Herrick has peeled back the familiar to expose the fascinating. As he alternates viewpoints between Spanish conquistadors and the first Americans they found in thriving pueblos, Herrick provides essential reading for anyone who would understand the collision of cultures that defines so much of what see all around us today.? Jim Belshaw Author of Trickster in the Front Yard and Closing the Chart

ISBN-13: 9781620062371
ISBN-10: 1620062372
Publication Date: 6/9/2013
Pages: 252
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Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

3.5 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Native American
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Historical
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> War

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