Diamond crouched down and spoke in a voice calculated to reach no
further than the Indian’s ears. “Hear me, Iron Feather, I’ll see you dead
before I’m through with you. Remember that, Indian. I’ll teach you what it
means to suffer.”
Iron Feather said quietly, “If you could teach me anything, you
wouldn’t be wearing that uniform.”
A brisk stark tale of Horse Cavalry and the Indian Wars from a
dependable author. I was struck by the theme embodied in the quote that
characterizes the tension between the warring factions.
A rigid and organized way of life [the Cavalry] seems confining and
wrong-headed to the Indian.
The loose and seemingly unstructured way of the Indian seems a
non-progressive dead-end to the white man.
It is a tale of action, but Garfield plays at a wee bit more here
Solid stuff.
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