The Medicine Calf
Subtitle: a novel
By: Bill Hotchkiss.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Format: Fiction
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Beckwourth, James Pierson, 1798-1866 -- Fiction.; African American pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.; African American trappers -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
Table of contents: title: 11       Foreword and Acknowledgments; title: 19   1  Up the Platte; title: 28   2  Seedskeedee; title: 55   3  Biddle's Bear; title: 70   4  Return to the Mountains; title: 83   5  Siksika; title: 98   6  Smith, Jackson, and Sublette; title: 112   7  Wife with No Ears; title: 125   8  Run from the Big Bellies; title: 141   9  Alexander's Woman; title: 153 10  Red Beard's Ear; title: 166 11  Good Luck to Ye, Jim Beckwourth; title: 177 12  Big Bowl's Son; title: 192 13  Absaroka; title: 210 14  Enemy of Horses; title: 227 15  Little Wife's Finger; title: 242 16  Bar-Chee-Am-Pe and Bobtail Horse; title: 261 17 The Whims of Isakawuate; title: 279 18  Medicine; title: 298 19  The Bloody Arm; title: 314 20  How Else Could I Eat?; title: 329 21  Red Cherry's Price; title: 346 22  The Gift of A-Ra-Poo-Ash; title: 366 23  The Voice of the Trapper; title: 388 24  Out of the Blizzard; title: 405       The Life of Jim Beckwourth, A Chronology