Category Native American
My Story to Tell?
Patricia Grady Cox February 5, 2018 I wanted to have a character in my novel who told the story of the Navajo Long Walk from a native perspective. But how? I am not Native American. I had never done more than exchange a few words with Native Americans. I’d spent a lot of time at Monument […]
Do It Scared
Patricia Grady Cox August 19, 2017 I have a confession to make. The first time I ever climbed up onto the back of a horse was at the ripe old age of 37. I remember well the day I stood waiting with a friend of mine for the current trail ride to return so we […]
An Interview with author Julia Robb
Author Julia Robb has just released her fourth historical novel (previous titles are Saint of the Burning Heart, Del Norte, and Scalp Mountain). This one, The Captive Boy, is about the U.S. Army and the 1870s war with the Comanches. But it’s really about the fictional Colonel McKenna and his relationship with August Schiltz, a […]
A HAUNTING OF COYOTES
Patricia Grady Cox October 31, 2015 Ghostly encounters flare up throughout my novel CHASM CREEK. Ruben Santiago, an elderly Navajo, experiences most of these visions, visitations, and vexatious occurrences. In the following short excerpt, Ruben goes to a place called Haunted Hill, hoping to conjure up the image of his long-dead grandmother. Instead he gets […]
CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL
By Patricia Grady Cox September 16, 2015 When you’ve wanted to visit a place ever since you first heard of it (and that would be decades ago), how wonderful it is that you are not disappointed when you get there! The Crazy Horse Memorial held the number one spot on my list of places to […]
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