Books by Don Coldsmith and Complete Book Reviews

In the latest installment of his Spanish Bit Saga, yeoman western writer Coldsmith tells the tale of Granny Snakewater, née Corn Flower, an orphaned Cherokee girl who falls under the tutelage of her adoptive namesake and gradually replaces her
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Don Coldsmith, Author . Forge $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-87618-0
Internal conflict threatens to destroy a Native American tribe in Coldsmith's latest adventure, which takes place on the Midwestern plains as several tribes try to fend off an aggressive tribe known as the Head Splitters. The Elk-dogs fracture...
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Don Coldsmith, Author University of Oklahoma Press $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8061-3226-6
Noted western writer Coldsmith adds yet another chapter to his already lengthy Spanish Bit Saga (28 books), taking up the story in the late 18th century, shortly after the events of the previous installment, Medicine Hat. In a different turn, his...
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Don Coldsmith, Author Doubleday Books $15 (182p) ISBN 978-0-385-47026-1
Coldsmith's ( Walks in the Sun ) newest installment in the popular Spanish Bit Saga examines the changes in Plains Indian culture wrought by increasing contact with whites during the early years of colonization. At 17, Singing Wolf, the son of the...
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Don Coldsmith, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-385-47030-8
Coldsmith's popular Spanish Bit saga, about a Plains Indian tribe, continues with this evocative installment that takes up where Child of the Dead left off. The Elk-dog People are enjoying a period of peace and stability. Their dreaded enemies, the...
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Don Coldsmith, Author University of Oklahoma Press $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8061-2959-4
The latest installment in Coldsmith's popular Spanish Bit Saga picks up the story of the Elk-Dog People where the last volume, Trail of the Spanish Bit, concluded. The Elk-Dog People have just endured a tornado and a lean winter, and holy man Pipe...
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Don Coldsmith, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-10632-9
Taking a break from his Spanish Bit Saga (Bearer of the Pipe, etc.), Coldsmith delivers a meticulously detailed, sweeping tale of Native American life and the gradual encroachment by the white man's world. Covering nearly 300 years of North American
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Don Coldsmith, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-553-10641-1
Although fictional subplots are loosely woven throughout, the sequel to Tallgrass (Coldsmith's 300-year prairie saga) is really a detailed, but slow, history of western expansion in the bloody middle of the 19th century. After the death of his...
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Don Coldsmith, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87617-3
Treating readers to yet more meticulous historical detail, Coldsmith's (The Lost Band) latest lengthy yarn is a low-key and uninspiring kind of Native American Forrest Gump. After more than 35 western novels, Coldsmith continues to chart the...
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Don Coldsmith, Author, Don Goldsmith, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-385-47029-2
Coldsmith continues his Spanish Bit Saga, historicals about life among the Plains Indians (Track of the Bear), with an entry that's at once elegiac and down-to-earth. Set in the 18th century, this new story depicts the trials of the tribe known as ``
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Don Coldsmith, Author, Don Goldsmith, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (489p) ISBN 978-0-553-09643-9
In an epic novel that, with its emphasis on the Plains Indians of the 11th century, can be considered a prequel to his popular Spanish Bit Saga novels (see Child of the Dead, reviewed below), Coldsmith provides a gripping and imaginative account of...
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