num_pages: 192
description: Pale Star of the Elk-Dog band, cruelly abducted from the People as a child, has grown into a cunning and courageous woman, Married to a scout named Brule, she has won the respect of the Fran-coy at faraway Fort Mishi-hgan for her beauty and storytelling skills. Yet she yearns for her home. So when Brule and Pale Star are chosen to guide the Fran-coy soldier Andre Du Pres down the Big River into uncharted territory she forms a daring plan to get back to her family. But Pale Star's judgement is soon clouded by a secret and forbidden love for Andre, and she may lead the exploring party straight into danger--and bring a white stranger and his powerful medicine to the People's land.THE SPANISH BIT SAGASet in the New World of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Don Coldsmith's acclaimed novels recreate a time, a place, and a people that have been nearly lost to history. In The Spanish Bit Saga we see history in the making through the eyes of those proud Native Americans who lived it.
language: English
title: River of Swans
titlecomplete: River of Swans (Spanish Bit Saga, #10)
genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Westerns
ratings_count: 101
series: Spanish Bit Saga
publisher: Bantam Books