Painted horses
By: Malcolm Brooks
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice; Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9781410475114
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Large type books; Horsemen and horsewomen; Women archaeologists; Nineteen fifties; Fiction
Description: In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by progress. 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 that 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 US 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 just the vanished past.--