Search Results: conquering horse by manfred frederick feikema

A Signet Book / New American Library., 1965. First edition. 1st Signet printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Coiver surface soiling. Front lower creasing. Binding tight. Slight blemishing to red page block edges. Spine bubbly crease.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Buckskin Man. Audience: General/trade. Native Nations fiction set among the Yankton Sioux when great legends and great deeds were a way of life. At 17 winters, No Name, a young would-be chieftain is introduced to the reader as he makes his way to his sweetheart's tepee. He would later test his manhood, awaiting a sacred vision that will give him a warrior's name. Told realistically, this story does not portray the Sioux as splendid primitive savages nor as "red devils" common to American westerns and histories written in earlier eras. No Name is part of a proud, tradition-honoring society. Frederick Manfred also authored "Lord Grizzly".

New York:: McDowell, Obolensky,, (1959). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name stamped on front endpaper, some overall edgewear and chipping to the dj) Uncommon in the hardcover first edition. . First printing. His eleventh book, a novel set in "Siouxland," the story of a young Sioux who wins his manhood and the right to lead his trible. As a "maverick" writer Manfred was always an outsider in terms of the literary establishment, although some of his books were best-sellers and his novel 'Lord Grizzly' was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1954. Glossary. 355 pp.

Lincoln, [Neb.] ; London : University of Nebraska Press , 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description: xi,355p. ; 21cm. Subject: Dakota Indians Fiction. Fiction in English American writers 1945- Texts.