Cheyenne Raiders
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4.3 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
With over six million books in print worldwide, Robert Jordan is an international bestselling sensation. Yet even the most rabid Jordan fans don't know that the blockbuster talent behind The Path of Daggers is also one of the finest storytellers to take on the Old West. Written under the name Jackson O' Reilly, Cheyenne Raiders is a stunning tale of the bravery, and discovery of love in the time of war.
Yale-educated Thomas McCabe accepts a position with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and is soon sent to live among a nomadic tribe in the wilds of Missouri. After saving the life of a young brave, Thomas is grudgingly accepted by the Cheyenne-until he falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Night Bird Woman. Determined to marry the girl he has seen all his life in his dreams, Thomas must first prove himself by passing the excruciatingly painful and spiritually breathtaking Test of Fire. It is through this initiation that he is visited by a Spirit Vision, one that carries a message powerful enough not only to teach Thomas the true meaning of courage, but to remake the lives of the proud-and imperiled-people he will come to call family.
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Long before Jordan (The Path of Daggers) became a bestselling fantasy novelist, he wrote swashbucklers and westerns under the pseudonyms Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly. Forge released the O'Neal 1981 The Fallon Pride in hardcover in 1996; now the O'Reilly 1982 western receives the same treatment. Only Jordan's cult status can explain why. Childishly imagined, if smoothly written, this tale of horse raids, grizzlies, buffalo, sagebrush and gold is a curiosity rather than a lost gem. In 1837, the Bureau of Indian Affairs sends 25-year-old Yale grad Thomas Benton McCabe to report on the life and culture of the Cheyenne. (McCabe is fleeing a Boston socialite who wants to marry him for his money.) McCabe has barely crossed the Arkansas River before he saves the life of Spotted Fox, a Cheyenne brave with a broken leg. The grateful chief presents him with a tepee and a woman, and invites him to live with the tribe. Hardly breaking a sweat, "Mack Cabe" becomes the unwitting hero of a horse-stealing raid on the Utes; his adopted tribe gives him the name Horse Runner. Before he can learn to say kemo sabe, he has fallen in love with another maiden, Night Bird Woman, and must therefore fight Three Hatchets, the warrior she is promised to. A buffalo hunt, hand-to-hand combat, marriage, the Sun Dance ordeal, a gold strike, a grizzly bear, comeuppance for the greedy Bostonian and miscellaneous adventures ensue as the youthful Jordan/O'Reilly leaves no pulp cliche unused. Fans seeking earnest, latter-day Zane Grey clones might just enjoy it.
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