The Heartsong of Charging Elk

James Welch

Original title: The heartsong of Charging Elk

earliest edition we have, 2000 Anchor, 2001 448 pages

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow, a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of nineteenth-century Marseille. Left behind in a Marseille hospital after a serious injury while t...

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The Heartsong of Charging Elk edition · 2001 · Anchor · 448 pages · 9780385496759
The heartsong of Charging Elk edition · 2000 · Doubleday · 440 pages · 9780385496742

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