Buffalo Nickel: Buffalo Nickel

by C.W. Smith

Book Overview

His Indian name was Went-on-a-Journey, though the missionaries on the reservation named him David Copperfield. But the Kiowa Indian was destined for a fate that would take him from his people, who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671624466
• ISBN13: 9780671624460
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful tale of suspense and drama.

A true sense of the raw Oklahoma landscape, colorful Indian folk tales that help authenticate a bygone era, a bittersweet western epic.His Indian name was Went On A Journey. In 1904, on an Oklahoma reservation, the missionaries named him David Cooperfield. But the full blooded Kiowa Indian was destined for a fate that would take him from the bosom of his people, hunters who lived in a world of sacred rituals and reverence for the land, into the white man's world and fabulous wealth. Along the way, David, would become bound to two women, one white and one Kiowa, and caught up in frontier filled with greed,lust and violence. As the nation of his ancestors faded before its conquerors, David would struggle to forge a new vision for himself and for his Indian past...