Winter of the Metal People: The Untold Story of America's First Indian War
Book Details
Author(s)Dennis Herrick
PublisherSunbury Press, Inc.
ISBN / ASIN1620062372
ISBN-139781620062371
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
This is the only book devoted to America's first Indian war. Nearly forgotten now, it is the Tiguex War of 1540-42. The Coronado expedition's Spaniards and its Mexican Indian allies fought the war against the Pueblo Indians along the Rio Grande, between present-day Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico.
This historical novel Winter of the Metal People presents the first account of the war that includes the Puebloan point of view. It follows a young Pueblo warrior who reluctantly takes leadership of his people in a time of crisis, overcoming self-doubt to lead Puebloans in successful guerilla warfare against the Spaniards.
Praise for Winter of the Metal People and author Dennis Herrick
"A vivid historical novel that brings to life the epic winter of 1540-41 as Spanish and Pueblo Indian worlds first collided. Herrick's narrative--driven by extant annals of the Coronado expedition, recent archaeological research, and Pueblo accounts--is the closest we will ever get to standing on a hill above an ancient Pueblo community and witnessing the gritty reality of history. It is a masterful eye opener."
--David E. Stuart, Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Author of Prehistoric New Mexico, Anasazi America, and The Ancient Southwest
"A riveting historical novel of immense scholarship and insight. Dennis Herrick makes the story of the first American Indians in the West to face the military might of European forces as vivid and real as if Coronado's expedition had ridden out of Mexico yesterday. Winter of the Metal People will forever influence your perception of the stunning landscapes and rich culture of the Southwest."
--Margaret Coel, author of Killing Custer
This historical novel Winter of the Metal People presents the first account of the war that includes the Puebloan point of view. It follows a young Pueblo warrior who reluctantly takes leadership of his people in a time of crisis, overcoming self-doubt to lead Puebloans in successful guerilla warfare against the Spaniards.
Praise for Winter of the Metal People and author Dennis Herrick
"In Winter of the Metal People Dennis Herrick, journalist and award-winning writer of fiction, offers us a consummately humane novel of the first encounters between Pueblo peoples of the Southwest and a European, African, and Native American expedition led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in the early 1540s. Herrick skillfully brings the Native side of those encounters into vivid focus. We are brought to imagine the complexity and variety of Pueblo reactions as they struggle to come to grips with the foreign presence and how it violently impacts their lives and traditions."
--Richard Flint, Historian Author of No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada
--Richard Flint, Historian Author of No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada
"A vivid historical novel that brings to life the epic winter of 1540-41 as Spanish and Pueblo Indian worlds first collided. Herrick's narrative--driven by extant annals of the Coronado expedition, recent archaeological research, and Pueblo accounts--is the closest we will ever get to standing on a hill above an ancient Pueblo community and witnessing the gritty reality of history. It is a masterful eye opener."
--David E. Stuart, Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Author of Prehistoric New Mexico, Anasazi America, and The Ancient Southwest
"A riveting historical novel of immense scholarship and insight. Dennis Herrick makes the story of the first American Indians in the West to face the military might of European forces as vivid and real as if Coronado's expedition had ridden out of Mexico yesterday. Winter of the Metal People will forever influence your perception of the stunning landscapes and rich culture of the Southwest."
--Margaret Coel, author of Killing Custer
