cover image Shoshone Mike

Shoshone Mike

Frank Bergon. Penguin Books, $7.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-14-009876-1

Four stockmen have been murdered, by whom no one knows, though the trivial fact of ignorance doesn't deter the murderous posse from absolute certainty that those ``Injuns,'' the Shoshones, have committed the crime. Reminding us of a dark aspect of our past, Bergon ``employs a spare and simple narrative voice to build an enormously affecting tale,'' observed PW. (Sept.)