The tribal policeman Charlie Moon is puzzled. The decreased Sun Dancers sustained no visible, life-ending injuries, so heis reluctant to call it murder--though there is surely nothing "natural' about the sudden, inexplicable deaths of two strong and healthy men. Unlike her skeptical nephew, however, Charlie's aunit, shaman Daisy Perika, trusts the signs the spirits have sent her of a great evil in their midst. And Moon's matukach frriend, Police...

While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. Sequel to "Bearstone."

At the death of his parents, a young Native American boy must enter the world of the white man. When his father killed another brave, Thomas Black Bull and his parents sought refuge in the wilderness. There they took up life as it had been in the old days, hunting and fishing, battling for survival. But an accident claimed the father's life and the grieving mother died shortly afterward. Left alone, the young Indian boy vowed never to retum to the...

Clyde Barr, the drifter with lethal skills, is alone again, wandering the highways of the American West in search of something to believe in. As summer turns to autumn, he trades his car for a horse and heads for the mountains, planning to clear his head and regain his edge with some hunting. But when he runs across an elderly sick man-- a Ute Indian from a nearby reservation-- Clyde's dream of solitude is quickly dashed. On the reservation, Clyde...

Unicorn Mountain, a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel, here appears in a re-edited and revised version in Michael Bishop's preferred text some thirty years after its original publication, when it was hailed for its adult focus, its gritty characters and situations, and its imaginative narrative elements, which include ranching in Colorado, Ute Indian lore, a Denver-based advertising firm, Swing Era music, an old Bendix TV set that transmits...

Cattle rancher Charlie Moon, a former policeman, puts his life on the line when he agrees to investigate the deaths of a young Native American woman and her stepfather whose bodies have been discovered in the shadow of two sandstone monoliths believed by local tribes to hold mysterious, mythical powers.

As the FBI ineptly pursues three men who raided a Ute tribe's gambling casino, Joe Leaphorn uncovers a pattern connecting this crime with the exploits of a legendary Ute hero-bandit, and Jim Chee finds a fatal flaw in the federal theory that makes a wounded deputy a suspect.

Examines the Ute Indians, including their origins, structures, myths, warriors, etc.

For Granite Creek police chief Scott Parris, the late-night murder of a brilliant female graduate student is as brutal and baffling as anything he encountered during his years as a Chicago cop. Now the investigation is leading Parris into worlds he has never known - and towards a remarkable alliance with a beautiful journalist and an elderly Native American mystic that could prove both enlightening ... and deadly.