The Scout of Wounded Knee

The Americans

De: Michael A. McLellan

Narrado por: Boyd Barrett

From the author of In the Shadow of the Hanging Tree comes this uncompromising and compelling novel of post-Civil War America. Half-starved and disillusioned, Everett Ward searches for a new life after four years of war. He drifts down to Texas where he finds work on a cattle ranch. An encounter with Rebecca, the ranch’s Lakota kitchen girl, leaves him enamored, but it also starts a chain of events that spans decades and leaves the couple embroiled in a bitter clash of cultures.

The Scout of Wounded Knee lifts the veil of romance from the western genre, blending historical and fictional characters to paint an uncompromising and compelling picture of post-Civil War America.

Told through the memories of an aged frontier scout, this standalone follow-up to Michael A. McLellan’s In the Shadow of the Hanging Tree, is a story of friendship, love, remorse, and the end of a way of life in the American west.

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Superb story and narration

This was a wonderful story that was beautifully narrated. If someone had played this for me and told me it was the actual memoir of someone who had lived in the West after the Civil War giving his first-hand account of the unfolding drama/tragedy of interactions between the Whites and the Indian nations, I would not have doubted them for a second. While the events drive the plot, the day-to-day is not only captivating but completely convincing in its details (I am amazed how the author could envision life at that time in such detail without actually having been there). And the narration is superb -- the voice both mesmerizing and full of life at the same time. A truly excellent listen all around.