Title: Liar's moon
First published: 1999
Description: "It's 1852 and a young girl in Texas is kidnapped by Indians. It's 1859 and two toddlers fall off a buckboard heading west: rumor has it they survived and are being raised by coyotes. It's 1874 and a young brave has a vision he is invincible: he will lead his people to disaster. It's 1879 and a black Mississippi sharecropper is terrorized into making the migration west."--BOOK JACKET. "It's 1890 and we have arrived at Wounded Knee: the West has been subdued."--BOOK JACKET.

"As it de-romanticizes our greatest story, the novel shows how history slid into legend to become - in little more than thirty years - the defining myth of America. With its mix of songs and laments, tall tales, hearsay, and history, Liar's Moon is a true American original."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Fiction, historical, general, West (u.s.), fiction, African americans, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Missing children, Feral children, Circuit riders, Brothers, Indians of North America
LC classification: PS3561.I4165 L52 1999