Walks on the Wind

by Kosser and Michael Kosser

Powerful warrior Walks on the Wind suggests the Arapaho attack the city on Denver after their village is ravaged by whites, but is persuaded to try a peaceful resolution. Then troops attack the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312966261
• ISBN13: 9780312966263
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

"SAD"

My one word for the title of this review says it all. This is the story of Walks on the Wind. An Arapaho Indian that was never treated right by the white man. He ended up losing everything he had but I feel like this is true of so many indians of that time. On page 8, paperback, a statement is made, "They kill our buffalo. They cut down our trees, they take our campgrounds and call it theirs. Then they give us back some of our own land and tell us to stay there." It tells the story of white men taking Indian land, building a town and then telling the Indians they will be shot if they show up there. One of the worst men was John Milton Chivington, a preacher turned soldier. He wanted to kill all Indians, did not matter what tribe, good or bad. I think this could very well be true story of the way the Indians were treated. I know there was good and bad on both sides but I think the whites broke more treaties, told more lies and did more harm than the Indians did at first. If you like to read about the early settlers and Indians, I feel you will like this book. As Walks on the Wind used to say each morning," There is beauty before me this day." Walks on the Wind lost his beauty.

Michael Kosser ain't no red man.

Michael Kossser writes with the authority of a rubber chicken. His characters would be improved if they could be upgraded to two dimensional. His Native American characters make Tonto look like the Gore Vidal of the plains. Some of Kosser's books, written under other names, including Mike Roark, Mike the Moose, and Mike Cro Phone, make more use of torture, one of his favorite subjects than this piece of buffalo tripe. These were his best works -- eyes were gouged out, entrails pulled forth and used as necklaces for the dying torturee. This latest pile of deer scat doesn't have much torture, unless you count the torture the reader endures in working through it.