The Power of Horses and Other Stories - Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

[Luke]

The Power of Horses and Other Stories, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, 1990, United States, SHORT STORIES

"...The fifteen stories in this collection are delicately drawn pictures of lives rent by violent change and held together by the strong and living traditions passed down through countless generations of people living in the "Dakotapi of the Upper Plains." "Loss of the Sky," which takes place right before the United States enters World War I, tells of Joseph Shields, "a fifty-year-old Sioux Indian who in his own way knew something of the rise of brutal doctrines, something of the destruction of ancient civilizations, something of a change of worlds."..."

(J.L., p. 51)