Indain Yell - The Heart of an American Insurgency by Michael Blake
Recounting twelve significant battles, and the reverberating consequences of their outcomes that took place in the American West between the United States and American Indians from 1854 to 1890, this book is filled with harrowing stories of sacrifice and misdeeds that are well documented in the annals of history, as well as others that are less well known. Commonly and callously referred to at the time as the "Indian Problem," this issue, and how it was handled, became the defining factor in shaping how American Indians live today and reflects interestingly on how the American military currently handles conflicts with insurgents throughout the world. Further reading suggestions are offered at the end of each chapter.
Published by Northland Press
170 pages, hard cover (ISBN: 0-87358-907-6)
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Dances With Wolves: A Novel by Michael Blake
The world renowned American epic Dances With Wolves is the eternal story of one man's search for his place in the world. Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical and unpredictable journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see. "before its gone".
His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is the springboard for contact with the lords of the southern plains... the Comanches.
Though he does not speak their language, has no knowledge of their customs and is considered a trespasser, Lieutenant Dunbar finds himself intrigued by the exotic and alien culture of the buffalo-hunting people of the plains.
A simple disire to know more about his wild neighbors ignites a great adventure of transformation that culimates with the emergence of a different kind of man... a man called Dances With Wolves.
Published by Hrymfaxe LLC
283 pages, hard cover (ISBN: 0-9724753-0-3)
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The Holy Road: A Novel by Michael Blake
An unforgettable American story. Dances With Wolves was an international bestseller that has become a modern classic. The 1990 film adaptation won seven Academy Awards. In The Holy Road, master storyteller Michael Blake at long last continues the saga.
Eleven years has passed since the Lieutenant John Dunbar became the Comanche warrior Dances With Wolves and married Stands With A Fist, a white-horn woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood. With their three children, they live peacefully in the village of Ten Bears. But there is unease in the air, cuased by increased reports of violent confrontations with white soldiers, who want to drive the Comanches onto reservations.
Disquiet turns to horror, an then to rage, when a band of white rangers descends on Ten Bear's village, slaughtering half its inhabitants and abducting Stands With A Fist and her infant daughter. The three surviving great warriors - Wind In His Hair, Kicking Bird, and Dances With Wolves - decide they must go to war with the white invaders. At the same time, Dances With Wolves realizes that only he can rescue his wife and child.
Told with the same sweep, insight, and majesty that have made Dances With Wolves a worldwide phenomenan, The Holy Road is an epic story of courage and honor.
Published by Hrymfaxe LLC
366 pages, hard cover (ISBN: 0-9724753-4-6)
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Marching To Valhalla: A Novel by Michael Blake
No contemporary author portrays the West with the vibrancy, authenticity, and drama of Michael Blake. As he demonstrated with his international bestselling novel, Dances With Wolves, Blake transforms the American frontier into a saga as original as it is unforgettable.
Now, in Marching to Valhalla, Blake turns his storyteller's eye on George Armstrong Custer, West Pointer, youngest Union general of the Cival War, horseman, passionate lover, explorer, ardent husband, and, most famously, Indian hunter. In Blake's pages, Custer emerges as a dashing, driven soldier, suspicious of his friends, respectful of his enemies, and ever unable to feel quite alive in the civilian world.
Composed in the form of Custer's journal, Marching To Valhalla is an impeccable merging of factt and fiction, a powerful evocation of our bloody past, and a tribute to the endurance of a human heart facing adversity and disaster. A masterpiece of Michael Blake's novel is a tragic romance that reveals a Custer never before imagined, and lets us finally contemplate the twisting, uncharted paths to glory and doom.
Published by Hrymfaxe LLC
263 pages, hard cover (ISBN: 0-9724753-3-8)
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Airman Mortensen: A Novel by Michael Blake
From Michael Blake, Author of bestselling novel Dances With Wolves, comes a humorous and tender new story of first love, of a boy on the brink of manhood, and of a nation on the eve of change.
It is 1966 and eighteen-year-old Airman Mortensen has gotten into trouble on a U.S. Air Force base in the Southwest.
He has disobeyed an officer's order and his punishment begins with permanent latrine duty. He spends day after uncertain day cleaning bathrooms while the paperwork for a court martial makes its way slowy through channels.
But at the point his life seems darkest the young airman meets Claire Brill, the base commander's daughter. They fall in love with each other, surrendering completely to the intensity and beauty of first love. Their union triggers a key drama in Airman Mortensen's life, all of it set against the backdrop of Saturday night dances, surprise inspections, visits from the relatives, and the constant search for places to be alone.
At its core, Airman Mortensen is about the time in life when purity of heart and rebellion are inextricably mixed. Luminous and precise, Blake's voice captures the restless and indomitable spirit of youth which inhabits us all.
Published by Hrymfaxe LLC
263 pages, hard cover (ISBN: 0-9724753-2-X)
Price: $12.47
Like A Running Dog: An Autobiography by Michael Blake
Fall of 1970. A thousand-year cold snap has descended on the Southwest as 24-year-old Michael Blake, in the midst of his senior year at the University of New Mexico, decides to drop out and move to Los Angeles.
Accompanied by his dog Kelly and with a phone number for a New Mexico rock band living in L.A., Blake begins his climb to fame. The climb, however, is steep and Blake soon learns that whatever progress he is making is being chipped away by the tedium of everyday survival, unbearable living situations, and rejection.
Still, Blake manages to get his foot in at the Los Angeles Free Press and to write his first screenplay.
Like A Running Dog is written in the poetic and unpretentious style for which Michael Blake has become known and loved. The autobiography is replete with humorous and melodramatic situations shared by most of his contemporary artistic peers. It recounts an underground scene fueled by ideological beliefs, strong desires to change the world and, on occasion, ego clashes and personal vendettas.
A must-read for anybody whose sense of curiosity is intact.
Twelve The King by Michael Blake
In 1990 while doing research on mustang horses for a story he was working on, Michael Blake encountered a wild lead stallion captured and held by the Bureau of Land Management near Reno, Nevada. Recalling his first encounter with “Twelve” at a holding pen, Blake writes….
“There seemed to be an invisible barrier surrounding him, and none of the other horses, whether alone or in gangs, ever sniffed or touched or whinnied at him. The director recalled that on one occasion the entire population came together and circled their king in a massive surround that lasted several minutes”.
Blake conveys the undying spirit of the mustang stallion and their journey together from Nevada to California, and to his final home in Arizona, where the writer and this unique horse spent many good years in each other's company.
“It often crossed my mind that if Twelve reached the mountains he would be lost to us forever, and that being lost forever might not be so bad--let the old stallion go into the mountains and spend his last few days in freedom”.
Twelve, The King is a memoir that reads like a love poem not only to a particular animal, but to all wild things, to what is wild in us. This story is equal parts an unsentimental recounting of one person's relationship to an untamable animal and a cautionary tale as to what we stand to lose if we take the existence of these magnificent symbols of North American independence and resourcefulness for granted. Michael understood that "Twelve" was not his to own or subdue, and took pride in the special gift of being the wild stallion's custodian. It is a pleasure for us to offer this moving portrait from the author of Indian Yell, Marching To Valhalla and Dances With Wolves.
Published by Perceval Press
36 pages, soft cover (ISBN 978-09819747-2-9)
Price: $20.00
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CELEBRATING THE 20th MOTION PICTURE ANNIVERSARY OF DANCES WITH WOLVES
Published in more than 21 languages, the novel Dances With Wolves became a world-wide phenomena with its Motion Picture release in November of 1990.
To celebrate the anniversary of this modern classic, Hrymfaxe LLC is offering all its titles by Michael Blake at a 50% discount.
Dances With Wolves $12.47 (Retail $24.95)
The Holy Road $12.47 (Retail $24.95)
Marching To Valhalla $12.47 (Retail $24.95)
Airman Mortensen $12.47 (Retail $24.95)
Like A Running Dog, Vol. 1 $7.47 (Retail $14.95)
Limited copies of Indian Yell offered at a 50% discount
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