Stone Song
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For some years the Honorable Clyde M. Hall of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe has been my teacher in matters of history and scholarship and understanding of Plains Indian peoples, and my spiritual mentor. Thank you, Clyde.
Thank you, all my friends. In helping me find His Crazy Horse, you have led me to myself.
The most personal thanks: During the writing of this book a man of great soul called His Crazy Horse became my most intimate friend, my partner in a dance of spirits. It is difficult for me to lay down the writing and surrender him to the world as a book. Though he will be with me forever, I miss doing our dance every day.
This week I came here to Bear Butte, the sacred place of the Lakota and Cheyenne for crying for a vision. After my own seeking for insight, I prayed and smoked the pipe on the Teaching Hill, where His Crazy Horse is said to have addressed the assembled tribes. I offered my heartfelt thanks, and talked with him awhile.
Pila maya, Grandfather. Ake wancinyankin ktelo.
—Win Blevins
Bear Butte,
September 20, 1994
About the Author
Win Blevins is the author of thirty-one books. He has received the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature, has twice been named Writer of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, has been selected for the Western Writers Hall of Fame, and has won two Spur Awards for Novel of the West. His novel about Crazy Horse, Stone Song, was a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize.
A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Blevins is of Cherokee and Welsh Irish descent. He received a master’s degree from Columbia University and attended the music conservatory of the University of Southern California. He started his writing career as a music and drama reviewer for the Los Angeles Times and then became the entertainment editor and principal theater and movie critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. His first book was published in 1973, and since then he has made a living as a freelance writer, publishing essays, articles, and reviews. From 2010 to 2012, Blevins served as Gaylord Family Visiting Professor of Professional Writing at the University of Oklahoma.
Blevins has five children and a growing number of grandchildren. He lives with his wife, the novelist Meredith Blevins, among the Navajos in San Juan County, Utah. He has been a river runner and has climbed mountains on three continents. His greatest loves are his family, music, and the untamed places of the West.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2013 by Win Blevins
Cover design by Mimi Bark
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