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Trail of the Spanish Bit: Spanish Bit Saga, Number 1 (The Spanish Bit Saga)

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In "Trail of the Spanish Bit," physician Don Coldsmith brings to life an interesting and varied cast of characters as they very well might have been at the time of early European contact with North America's native peoples.

Coldsmith's "Elk Dog People" are a prairie native nation that is a composite of a number of horse culture tribes. However, when they first encounter "Heads Off," the marooned Conquistador, the People are part of a pedestrian, stone age culture. For better or worse, this first Euro contact changes the People and their way of life forever.

Coldsmith is an excellent story-teller. His characters are well-developed and not the cardboard stereotypes usually associated with the genre. Dr. Coldsmith is a literary talent with a great imagination.

If you have any interest whatever in Native Americans or western history, buy this book!

I had ordered this book at random, looking for a good story about native Americans. I received it early in the morning and started reading it right away... I didn't stop until it was finished. What a great novel! After finishing it, I went straight on-line and ordered all other Coldsmith novels that were available. I'm a Coldsmith convert!

Anyone who has held an antique in hand and felt the magnetic pull of the history of the object will enjoy this book. I had not previously been a student of Native American history or a fan of the western book genre, but Coldsmith succeeds in creating characters to whom I could relate as fellow human beings. The device of linking past to present through the spanish bit is ingenious.

Don Coldsmith paints a picture of a time almost forgotten. I own the whole "Spanish Bit" set. What a great journey.

Forget all the cowboy and indian stories you've read. This is a story of the People of the plains told from their point of view. I've read the series twice and enjoyed it immensely both times. The character development is superb. You will become a part of their culture.

This is the best book i have ever read and the whole Spanish Bit Saga is GREAT!!! You can't go wrong. Don Coldsmith has a gift of painting a picture of how it was. You will feel true emotion for the Native Americans. You have got to read it, you wont put it down and you will want to go out and get the next one.

In the tradition of Wagons West and White Indians comes the thrilling saga of a frontier so wild, so free, so magnificent that only men and women of unyielding courage could claim it. This novel begins the saga of the Elk-dog People, the first Native Americans of the Central Plains to tame the horse for use in hunting and war. The first in an incredible ten-volume series.

It was a good book, that I could not put down. The first Elk-dog person won my heart and I was drawn into the characters life and could imagine myself there very vividly.

This book peaked my interest to read more and before I knew it I was hooked. I enjoy books that put the Indian in a good light rather than as a blood thirsty person. I am sure there were plenty of bad and good Indians, like there were white folks with all their dang haughty thoughts of themselves. God created us all equal, the Bible says.