Luash, a young woman of the Modoc Indian tribe and its spiritual guide, finds herself drawn to a white soldier who tries to stop the U.S. Army from occupying the Modocs' ancestral land. Reprint.
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In yet another western romance about whites and Indians in America's Northwest, Munn (Daughter of the Forest) compresses the saga of white settlement and Indian dislocation into a tale of star-crossed lovers. The Modoc War of 1872-73 along the Oregon-California border is the setting as Luash, a beautiful young Modoc woman and the niece of the Modoc chief, Captain Jack, finds romance with young Army officer Jed Britton. Fiercely proud of her heritage, Luash fervently hates the white man and draws her strength from the Eagle, her spirit guide. Touted as a tough, veteran Indian fighter, Jed is sent by General Custer to assist in the subjugation of the Modocs. While Luash is strong and certain, Jed comes across as fearful and indecisive, a weak and unlikely hero. As Captain Jack leads a spirited defense against the Army's sloppy attempts to dislodge the Modocs from their traditional lands, Jed and Luash meet secretly throughout the siege and their love grows despite the bitterness and suspicion between them. Munn's portrait of Modoc history and landscape is impressive but problematic. It's almost too realistic, drawing attention to the fact that things end much better for the lovers than for the Modocs. Consequently, readers will have to flip a coin to decide whether the final accord between Luash and Jed is a genuinely redemptive vision of coexistence or whether it's a sentimental clunker of a conclusion.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Bottom line, Vella Munn is a country hick. Born and raised in Northern California's gold country, she freely roamed the forests--and lived to write about it. She spent a total of 18 months in a city and vows to never do that again. These days she lives in rural Oregon where she happily writes about characters who, like her, love the sound of the wind in the evergreens. She occasionally runs off to the family cabin near Crater Lake where she thinks about writing. Married with two sons and an amazingly handsome grandson, she's owned by two dogs.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
No "Dances With Wolves" here for sure.,
This review is from: Spirit of the Eagle (Paperback)
The basic is story is good, but it seems that if you open on Chapter 3, 6, 9, etc... it's the same dialogue over and over and over. That's a bummer. I could have read chapter 1 and 2 then skipped to the last chapter and saved myself from listening to the same conversation between the two main characters. Definitely no "Dances with Wolves" here. Too much is unbelievable, such as how the Modoc chief was treated by his own warriors. By the time things deteriorated that far, a chief would no longer be a chief. The cover is better than the book this time.
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