“I absolutely loved your book. It is so well written and I found I couldn’t put
it down. By the end, I felt like I had met Buffalo Calf. What a truly remarkable
woman.” Wendy Wessler
Dewitt, New York
"This well written book . . .
brings to life one of the most momentous, shameful,
yet heroic eras in American History. . . . The
reader cannot remain emotionally aloof from the
struggles and passions, instead they are drawn into
their lives and times in a personal way. The imagery
invoked by the authors makes the reader feel that he
or she is right there. . ."
Frederick H. Rapp
Ava NY
"You both did a great job.
I’ve enjoyed the book and I’ve read it twice
already."
Curtis Fishing
Hawk
Cheyenne/Cherokee
"The narrative style felt true
in that it took me to places and emotions that I
wouldn’t normally go. . . . Quietly dramatic and
just right. . . . Thanks for a great read, and an
education in the process."
Melissa Reider
Syracuse NY
"A great read and a part of history that isn't
taught in school. . . . very moving and heart
wrenching. . . . I'm a great advocate of the novel."
Peter Alcantara
Washington DC
"I loved the book. . . . I was highly pleased
someone took the time and made the effort to
recognize this woman's accomplishments. . . .
Imagine the surprise of the soldiers who recognized
there was a woman warrior in the battle! I was
cheering her on. I could well believe she was ready
to die doing the right thing rather than sit on the
sidelines."
Leissa Wages
Missoula MT
"Your book is remarkable and filled with drama and
suspense. It could be a script for a movie!"
Barrington Henry
St. Thomas, Jamaica, West Indies
"I finished the book last night and now I'm in that
sad phase of realizing a story to which I've grown
so attached is over. Good books do that . . . leave
you sad that you've finished. . . The book reads
beautifully . . . I could sometimes smell the
sagebrush and cottonwoods, the pine needles and
smoke from campfires. I could hear the keening of
the women in mourning and feel the bitter bite of
freezing nights with no lodges for refuge. . . I
feel as if I was on the journey with the Northern
Cheyenne. . . I've just had a very educational,
moving, and inspirational journey with Buffalo Calf
Road."
Janice Friebaum
Boca Raton, FL
"Few books have captured so well, and with such
detail, the deeply painful feelings of human beings
who witness . . . the inevitable loss of their own
culture, traditions and, ultimately, loved ones. The
authors of this novel have skillfully written a
cruel story of betrayal in the most poetic and
compassionate of manners. . . . The constant
struggle between love and deceit, peace and war,
tradition and change, obedience and disobedience,
and freedom and captivity are presented to us
effortlessly, as if to confirm that these are all
the natural forces that shape our lives and our
history. . . . An inspiring and informative story .
. ."
Engracia Angrill Schuster
Professor of Spanish,
Syracuse, NY
"Any story of the encounter between Native American
culture and the U.S. Cavalry is going to be filled
with tragedy and sadness. While the story of Buffalo
Calf Road Woman is no exception, there is a more
powerful emotion that flows through the book: that
of the indomitable nature of the human spirit. Her
story is truly inspirational."
David Kellogg
Fayetteville NY
relative of Mark Kellogg, killed at the Little
Bighorn
"This is a hauntingly written chronicle of a
remarkable woman . . . The crowning achievement of
this book is that it forced me to sit beside each
campfire, flee each white man's raid and suffer each
hardship as if I were myself a Cheyenne sister
fighting for my beloved family, people and way of
life."
Dr. Mary Ampola
Atlanta GA
". . . a dynamic novel of a Cheyenne warrior woman
whose bravery and resourcefulness outmatched the
warriors of her tribe, winning her a place in
American Western History. The authors wrote with
great compassion and awareness about this woman's
ordeal . . . I enjoyed this book very much and will
read it again for the excitement as well as the
graphic details of the Cheyenne nation's struggle
for survival."
Margery Dussing
Onondaga Hill, NY
"What a wonderful book! I am especially glad that my
granddaughters in New Zealand have the book in
hand."
Reverend Betty Bone Schiess
Cicero NY
"I just finished the book and I thought it was
amazing. I love everything you did with the story
and the characters and learned so much about the
Plains Indians and their culture."
Lynn Bergan
Bear Clan, St. Regis Mohawk
". . . a deeply moving story . . . All too sadly,
history is full of accounts of indigenous peoples
brutalized by a 'superior' foreign power . . . but
seldom has that oft-told tale been rendered as
poignantly as here. . . . there is so much dignity
and heroism in that struggle that the tragedy of
their fate is attenuated by the glory of their moral
victory. . . . In this superb piece of research and
writing, the Agonitos have worked the pattern
beautifully."
Joseph E. Roesch
author of Boudica, Queen Of The
Iceni
www.boudica-roesch.com
"I found this to be the wonderful story of a brave
woman and the tragedies she had to endure . . . I
enjoyed this book immensely."
Carol Goodwin
Peabody MA
"A remarkable historical novel carefully crafted by
two serious scholars and writers. One of the
elements that makes this award-winning book so
special is the skillful way the authors have
incorporated the fruits of many years of research .
. . with realistic, compelling, and believable
dialogue. The result is the recreation of the world
of Buffalo Calf Road devoid of sentimentality, yet
with all the poignancy inherent in the injustices
that inform this chapter of the history of the
American West."
Jane Donegan, Ph.D.
Geneva NY
"I just finished Buffalo Calf Road Woman and had to
tell you it was absolutely wonderful! I haven't read
many books about that time period and so it was
quite an education . . . very well written."
Mary Nelson Zadrozny
Just Imagine Design &
Publications
Liverpool NY
"I found it fascinating. I've been thinking a lot
about the book and the cultural issues it raises."
Virginia A. Bryan, Redbird Writing & Consulting
Billings MT
"I just finished reading Buffalo Calf Road Woman. .
. . I am overwhelmed by the shabby, dishonest
treatment that the white people perpetrated on the
Indians."
Walt Barfield
Shirley AR |
