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What is The Callings about?

The South Plains, 1873 Bison herds are dwindling on the Kansas prairie. Logan Fletcher, a young faith healer from Kentucky, labors as a skinner on a buffalo hunting crew, waiting for the taming of the plains and the chance to spread the Word to the coming immigrants. On the reservation near Fort Sill, the U.S. Government withholds food in retaliation for Comanche and Kiowa depredation in Texas. Cuts Something, an aging Comanche war chief, returns to his old home on the Pease River to revive his Badger Medicine. His quest is rewarded, and he leads his demoralized band back to the bison-rich Texas Panhandle. Logans crew abandons the Kansas bone field and heads into the Panhandle, where the brutal plains life erodes his idealism and raises questions he is ill prepared to answer. The inevitable confrontation of two meneach from an arrogant, expansionist culturedraws in an assortment of characters cast of the harsh land itself and just as Bob Durham, the former slave, whose skill as a plainsman saves Logans crew time and again; Ezra Higginbotham, the hunter whose determination to exploit the last of the southern bison herd imperils everyone around him; Elizabeth Keltner, the young woman

Author

Henry Chappell

Publisher

Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780896724945

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities