Painted horses
By: Malcolm Brooks
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York; [S.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780802121646
Subjects: Horsemen and horsewomen; Women archaeologists; Nineteen fifties; Fiction
Description: "Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her--a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar--the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army's last mounted cavalry campaign, living a fugitive life in the canyon. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than the vanished past" --