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| Anadarko
ISBN: 9780816532407
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Arizona Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Kiowa Indians; Distilling Illicit; Prohibition;
Holm's slow-moving sequel to 2008's The Osage Rose finds white Tulsa PI J.D. Daugherty and his Cherokee assistant, Hoolie Smith, embroiled in all kinds of trouble in Anadarko, Okla., in the early 1920s. The two are looking for missing geologist Frank Shotz in a town riven by corruption, prejudice, and greed. Only a few hours after their arrival, Hoolie is almost hit by a bullet fired by a white man, bootlegger Festus MacFarland, who was gunning instead for Chester Boyiddle, a Kiowa. Caddo County sheriff Ferrell Wynn is at odds with Anadarko's police chief, George Collins; the members of the Charging Horse family, including the Boyiddles, are warring with Festus; and Violet Comstock, who owns a diner and lots more, wants Daugherty to clean up the town. Daugherty and Hoolie manage to cause the various factions to turn on one another in this bleak story, in which just about everybody is prejudiced, from the KKK to officials of the Indian Office. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Tom Holm (Cherokee-Creek) is the author of The Osage Rose and several works of nonfiction, including Code Talkers and Warriors: Native Americans and World War II, The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era, and Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War . He is a professor emeritus in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. |
