The Glory Days of Buffalo Egbert

by Mardi Oakley Medawar

Overview

Winner of the Western Writers of America's
Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award

Tall, vain, elegant, the Crow were perhaps the most handsome of the Plains tribes. They were superb horsemen and fierce mystic warriors, implacable enemies, unshakable friends. A French-Canadian trapper, Renee DeGeer was a loner before he came to the Crow. He became one of them when he married the beautiful Tall Willow, only daughter of the principal chief, and started their magnificent family. But all too soon they and the whole Whistling Water clan found themselves in a fight to the death with other tribes competing for dwindling land and facing a white culture that threatened to overwhelm them like a river in flood. Now, as surely as the sun must set, the glory days of noble warriors and roaming hunters were coming to an end.

THE GLORY DAYS OF BUFFALO EGBERT
A magnificent novel that brings to life the moving story of the Crow nation

"A must read. If you haven't yet read it, get it.
It's a fine reading experience." —Allan W. Eckert,
author of That Dark and Bloody River

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161363713
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes
Publication date:	12/07/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	597,225
File size:	2 MB

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.