Pale Star — Don Coldsmith

The People's future had been shaped by the Elk-Dog Medicine, the horse bridle of the Spaniards--and now a wild-spirited girl will change their destiny again.

PALE STAR

A Moon of Sorrow 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 Waters 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, who vows to make her his slave wife--and keep her from returning to the People.

THE SPANISH BIT SAGA

Set in the New World of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Don Coldsmith's acclaimed novels recreate a time, a place and a people that have been nearly lost to history. In The Spanish Bit Saga we see history in the making through the eyes of those proud Native Americans who lived it.