A Warrior Elegy edition by Arley L Dial Literature Fiction eBooks
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Lt. Willard Riley A soldier and faithful servant of his country, Riley is tasked
with keeping the peace in the troubled Arizona Territory. At the head of
Troop B of the Tenth U.S. cavalry, Riley and his buffalo soldiers seek to
protect the settlers from the dreaded Apache. When news arrives that a group
of Apaches has made a violent departure from the reservation, Riley and
Troop B set out to round up the renegades, pitting themselves against a foe
who has been described as 'the tigers of the human species'.
Ka'edine A war chief, and proud defender of his people, Ka'edine has seen
the way of life he knew as a boy undergo massive change. Peace has been
made with the Americans, but that peace means little when a man's wife and
children are starving. Leary of breaking the peace but seeing no other
alternative, Ka'edine and several companions turn to the methods of their
forefathers and set out on a raid. A raid that will surely draw the ire of the
horse soldiers.
Two men brought into conflict by circumstances beyond their control. A
soldier trained in warfare by the institutions of the old world, and a warrior
who maintains the ancient traditions of the new. The civilized man and the
savage, caught up in a battle which has raged since time immemorial, and is
destined to continue until Nágodzaa, the end of time.
A Warrior Elegy edition by Arley L Dial Literature Fiction eBooks
By 1880, European immigrants, enabled by their social institutions and technology, had largely displaced the stone-age inhabitants of the current United States. That is the likely year of the novel, Nagodzaa: A Warrior’s Elegy, by Arley L. Dial. It is a believable, highly readable, and engaging snapshot of this transition’s end game in the Arizona territory. Mr. Dial moves smoothly between points of view, taking us inside the feelings and thoughts of cavalry soldiers, both white and black, Indian agents, Apache scouts, Mexican vaqueros and Apache warriors. You’ll find heroes and villains, desperate fights, love, hate, horrors, humor, justice of a sort, even a cavalry charge, but this is not a Hollywood treatment. Don’t expect noble savages, heart-of-gold cowboys, or John Wayne soldiers. When we hear the Apaches talking and thinking there is no, “Ugh-How-Me heap Paleolithic philosopher,” language, although his sparing use of Apache vocabulary and names is effective. Nor, are the Native Americans simply white men wearing scanty clothes. Mr. Dial works from the basic humanity of his characters, and gives us their words, thoughts and deeds from within the context of their culture. Even the bad men, and they are very bad indeed, come to us as human beings working from different motivations, morals, and social values.To the Europeans, the indigenous tribal-groups were at best a religious challenge and at worst a dangerous nuisance. To the aboriginal Asian immigrants, long established in the New World, the Europeans were a befuddling menace, against whom they fought a lingering and fragmented war, until finally overwhelmed around the end of the nineteenth century. The progress of European, now called American, settlement accelerated after the founding of the United States. By the end of the Civil War, in 1865, the so-called American Indians had been neutralized in all territory east of St. Joseph Missouri, along most of the Pacific Coast and in a large swath through much of Montana, Idaho and Utah. Fifteen years later, at the time of this story, they had been pushed or starved onto reservations, except for some undervalued areas in the current states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and the Dakotas. The world of the indigenous tribes was coming to an end, the evident meaning of the book’s title.
As with his previous novel, Plews, Mr. Dial is at his very best in giving us the climactic battle scene. It is a dirty, gritty, horrifying event with little romance and utterly no mercy. If you’d like to form an impression of what it felt like to be alive in 1880, living in the American Southwest, whether white, black, Indian, or Mexican, this book will help you. If you just want a good, well-researched read that faithfully reconstructs and presents an historical period, this is your book.
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A Warrior Elegy edition by Arley L Dial Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Very will written and a food read.
the book was ok...
Not a good read , Plews was a major improvement over this book!Kept hoping it would get better but it didn’t reach my expectations!
I found this to be a very good story , very well told. It is so unfair that such good writers / good books get lost while ghost written celebrity tripe becomes best sellers.
Great book, enjoyed the whole story.
This is a good western. More realistic than your usual western. Gives both sides of the story of Indian and White man. Arley Dial is a very good writer and I have enjoyed three of his books.
This book was very well written. I grew up in the area near where the San Carlos Apache Reservation and the White Mountain Apache Reservation are. The author's description of the setting and people is very well done. It took me back home. The writing reminded me of Louis L'Amour's books. I loved the gun fights, injustices meted out, justices being served, difficulties of living on the frontier and strong men and women who were there.
Well done, I look forward to more.
By 1880, European immigrants, enabled by their social institutions and technology, had largely displaced the stone-age inhabitants of the current United States. That is the likely year of the novel, Nagodzaa A Warrior’s Elegy, by Arley L. Dial. It is a believable, highly readable, and engaging snapshot of this transition’s end game in the Arizona territory. Mr. Dial moves smoothly between points of view, taking us inside the feelings and thoughts of cavalry soldiers, both white and black, Indian agents, Apache scouts, Mexican vaqueros and Apache warriors. You’ll find heroes and villains, desperate fights, love, hate, horrors, humor, justice of a sort, even a cavalry charge, but this is not a Hollywood treatment. Don’t expect noble savages, heart-of-gold cowboys, or John Wayne soldiers. When we hear the Apaches talking and thinking there is no, “Ugh-How-Me heap Paleolithic philosopher,” language, although his sparing use of Apache vocabulary and names is effective. Nor, are the Native Americans simply white men wearing scanty clothes. Mr. Dial works from the basic humanity of his characters, and gives us their words, thoughts and deeds from within the context of their culture. Even the bad men, and they are very bad indeed, come to us as human beings working from different motivations, morals, and social values.
To the Europeans, the indigenous tribal-groups were at best a religious challenge and at worst a dangerous nuisance. To the aboriginal Asian immigrants, long established in the New World, the Europeans were a befuddling menace, against whom they fought a lingering and fragmented war, until finally overwhelmed around the end of the nineteenth century. The progress of European, now called American, settlement accelerated after the founding of the United States. By the end of the Civil War, in 1865, the so-called American Indians had been neutralized in all territory east of St. Joseph Missouri, along most of the Pacific Coast and in a large swath through much of Montana, Idaho and Utah. Fifteen years later, at the time of this story, they had been pushed or starved onto reservations, except for some undervalued areas in the current states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and the Dakotas. The world of the indigenous tribes was coming to an end, the evident meaning of the book’s title.
As with his previous novel, Plews, Mr. Dial is at his very best in giving us the climactic battle scene. It is a dirty, gritty, horrifying event with little romance and utterly no mercy. If you’d like to form an impression of what it felt like to be alive in 1880, living in the American Southwest, whether white, black, Indian, or Mexican, this book will help you. If you just want a good, well-researched read that faithfully reconstructs and presents an historical period, this is your book.
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