Dan Simmons-Black Hills AUDIO

Dan Simmons-Black Hills



Overview: Amid the chaos and bloodshed of the Little Big Horn battlefield, a young Sioux boy decides to show his courage by laying hands on General George Armstrong Custer precisely at the instant of the general's death. What eleven-year-old Paha Sapa, whose name "Black Hill," can't know is that this brief contact will result in an uncanny connection that will shape his life for event-filled decades to come.

Haunted by Custer's ghost-voice, Paha Sapa is also driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people's sacred Black Hills. In 1936, as a dynamite expert working on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost at last and reclaim his people's legacy - on the very day Franklin Delano Roosevelt comes to Mount Rushmore