Black Hills (Used Paperback) - Dan Simmons

Amid the chaos and bloodshed of the Little Big Horn battlefield, a young Sioux boy decides to show his courage by laying hands on General George Armstrong Custer precisely at the instant of the general's death. What eleven-year-old Paha Sapa, whose name "Black Hill," can't know is that this brief contact will result in an uncanny connection that will shape his life for event-filled decades to come.

Haunted by Custer's ghost-voice, Paha Sapa is also driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people's sacred Black Hills. In 1936, as a dynamite expert working on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost at last and reclaim his people's legacy - on the very day Franklin Delano Roosevelt comes to Mount Rushmore

Dan Simmons seamlessly weaves together the stories of Paha Sapa, the Sioux, Custer, and the American West, depicting a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. At once a thrilling adventure, a love story, and a tale of supernatural suspense, Black Hills amply confirms Dan Simmon's status as one of the great storytellers of our time.

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