The Ft. Larned Incident

by Mardi Oakley Medawar

Overview

Mardi Oakley Medawar does for the Kiowa what Tony Hillerman has done for the Navaho." —Don Goldsmith

Award-winning author
Mardi Oakley Medawar

In 1868, following the signing of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, things are not going well for the Kiowa. When the Indian agent once again fails to live up to his promises, he is run off by the Kiowa. Tay-bodal—a healer and member of the Rattle Band—is enduring a personal crisis, and is therefore not in the best frame of mind when he is called to investigate a murder among the bands. The son of another chief, has been murdered. The one accused of killing him is the same man who has stolen Tay-bodal's wife. Unless Tay-bodal can put aside his own dislike and prove the accused innocent—and quickly—there will be war, tearing apart the Kiowa Nation.

"In her debut novel, Death at Rainy Mountain, Mardi Oakley Medawar proved a Cherokee can bring the Kiowa of another epoch alive for us." —Tony Hillerman

"Recommended for its setting . . . strong mystery. . .and a moving ending that captures the passing of friendships and Kiowa society." —Booklist

"Native American traditions, culture, and intelligence lend the whole a meaty authenticity, tempered by Tay-bodal's pragmatism and overweening compassion. A fine work; strongly recommended." —Library Journal

Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers—Writer of the Year Award

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161091838
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes
Publication date:	03/29/2022
Series:	Tay-Bodal , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	976,623
File size:	569 KB

About the Author

Mardi Oakley Medawar is the daughter of an Eastern Band Cherokee father and Louisiana French mother. Her first novel, The Glory Days of Buffalo Egbert, published under the title, People of The Whistling Waters, was written for her father while he was undergoing treatments for cancer. Her father enjoyed reading but didn’t care much for historical fiction because he didn’t like the way Indian people were portrayed. Mardi decided to write a book for him, handing him a new chapter after each treatment. He lived long enough to finish the final chapter and then challenged Mardi to have the book published. It took four years to keep that promise. At the awards banquet, when the novel won Best First Novel of the Year from Western Writers of America, Mardi accepted the award in the name of her father, Walter Allen Oakley.

She went on to write seven more novels she was certain her father would have loved reading. As both a musician and an artist, Mardi Oakley Medawar lives and works in the Carolinas.