The Snowblind Moon

This book doesn't appear to be all that well known. It's certainly one of the best in the historical fiction genre. Also, it's one of the longest books I've read, the paperback edition being over 850 pages. The story takes place over a short time frame and covers the opening battle of the Great Sioux War when troops under Colonel Reynolds attacked a Cheyenne village on March 17, 1876. But that's only a part of a much larger story that introduces many characters, many of them quite memorable. Personally, I didn't buy the entire story and the author did take some historical liberties, but nothing too outrageous. My only real complaint was when Sitting Bull was reading a newspaper, or so the reader is led to believe (I suppose he could have been repeating words after hearing someone else read it to him, and that's the way I choose to read it). The book takes some crazy turns and really builds towards the end. However, the ending itself was somewhat less than I expected, and kind of lacked closure. Well, maybe there will be another book some day, otherwise I will just have to imagine what happens to some of the characters. Despite some issues that I have with the book, I will NEVER forget it (in a positive way). Read it during a long, cold winter.

I have read The Snow Blind Moon, cover to cover, three times now. I have loaned and given the book to many people who all agreed that it was superior. The characters are welldeveloped and real. The story of white settler and Indian has never been presented with more understanding and sympathy. Why the movies have not discovered it is hard to comprehend.

I'am french and bought this book in 1986 when i was student in London. I thought it will make a very good movie. Seven years later "Dance with the wolves" was released and was a major success worldwide. For all the ones who liked "Dance With the Wolves" buy this book, it is definitively better, well written and as said the Observer: Anyone with a soft spot for the Old West...is bound to relish THE SNOWBLIND MOON