This is the true story of "Uncle" Nick Wilson. He was a man who not only lived part of his life with the Shoshone Indians but rode for the Pony Express. Wilson, Wyoming is named after him.
This book is like listening to an aging uncle ramble on with his life-stories. Wilson rings with believability -- he's surely had the experiences and earned the right to tell these stories. The humor that flows along with the stories is fun and helps avoid any clumsiness in jumping from one episode to the next. Through the eyes of the boy, one's views of the Shoshoni life evolve. We eventually get the savagness and sorrow of the inevitable battle events. One also comes to experience the great chief of these people, Washakie, who had the wisdom to keep his people out of wars with the whites for many decades. One gets also a flow of the times. It tells a lot of the early Mormon events and the pony express, as well as other aspects of the western frontier times.
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