Marcia L. (Marcia) reviewed on 1/4/2006 + 378 more book reviews

A moon of sorror comes to the Elk-dog band when few buffalo return to the plains and starvation forces the people into the forests of the east. For the young woman Pale Star the dark woods become a place of terror as she is kidnapped and sold into captivity. Her owner, the mysterious traveler, will carry her far from the people into a world of turmoil and savagery. But have the spirit guides given Pale Star this fate for a special reason? In the land of the Big Water she will discover a link between the Traveler's shining knife and her tribe's most magical amulet--the spanish bit. But she also encounters the cruel renegade Three Owls, sho vows to make her his slave wife--and keep her from returning to the people. Set in the new world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Don Coldsmith's acclaimed novels recreate a time and a place and a peole that have been nearly lost to history.

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