Louis Owens

Cole McCurtain

1 - Wolfsong (1991)
2 - The Sharpest Sight (1992)
3 - Bone Game (1994)
4 - Nightland (Aug-1996)

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  Wolfsong
  

  • 1991
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  Cole McCurtain - 1
  

  In the Cascade Range of northwest Washington, Tom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man’s fight to save the wilderness from destruction. In his fir...

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  The Sharpest Sight
  

  • 1992
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  Cole McCurtain - 2
  

  When Attis McCurtain, a half-Choctaw Native American and Vietnam veteran, is killed, deputy sheriff Mundo Morales investigates while the victim's younger brother begins a spiritual journey that also leads him to the truth. Reprint....

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  Bone Game
  

  • 1994
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  Cole McCurtain - 3
  

  Bone Game is a murder mystery on a grand scale. Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, California, is haunted by dreams dating back to events of Spanish California. Images of a Spanish priest murdered in 18...

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  Nightland
  

  • Aug-1996
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  Cole McCurtain - 4
  

  A man falls from the sky over the New Mexico wilds. Will Striker and Billy Keene, two lifelong friends who share half-Cherokee blood, see him come down. Near the corpse they find another object from the sky as well: a suitcase containing nearly a mil...

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  Dark River
  

  • Jul-2000
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  Jacob Nashoba’s journey has taken him from his Choctaw homeland in Mississippi to Vietnam and finally to a small reservation in the mountains of eastern Arizona. A tribal ranger, he lives among people far different from any he has known. Balance...

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  Between Two Fires
  

  • Mar-2012
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  Native American storytelling goes back centuries, but the rise of written Native American literature is much more recent. As of 1968, fewer than a dozen novels by Native Americans had been published. After House Made of Dawn won a Pulitzer Prize in 1...

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  Living to Tell the Tale
  

  • Mar-2012
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  Real-life Native Americans often come from reservations where 80% unemployment, common fetal alcohol syndrome, and the highest teen suicide rates in the nation make life daunting; these individuals have historically made less compelling characters in...

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