The year is 1953 -- and the worst of tragedies has struck the Cardinal family. A devastating car accident takes the life of Jack Cardinal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and leaves his young wife a bedridden invalid who has completely withdrawn. Lou and her younger brother Oz travel by train with their mother to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, where their great-grandmother Louisa lives on a remote farm, ready and willing (if not financially...

From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.

After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe's land. But revenge

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"One hundred years ago, American patriots picked up rifles and fought against British tyranny. That was Boston. There the enemy was King George III and his British troops. Now, In Last Chance, Texas, in the Big Bend River country, it's Abraham Hacker, a ruthless cattle baron who will slaughter anyone who tries to lay claim to the fertile land and everything on it. For Last Chance, freedom is under siege one violent act at a time. Until wounded Texas...

"Nat Horne controlled the mining town of Stilikine. He had made Sim Kenyon deputy sheriff for the area with the promise that Kenyon, a rancher, could have the entire valley - once they drove out the smaller ranchers. Reed Colton had been building his ranch for ten years and he was not going to be intimidated. Twice he had been shot at, but snow had wiped out all tracks before he could cut sign of the shooter. Two other small ranchers had joined with...

Explores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity's proprietary relationship with land means for the future. "Land examines in depth how we determine where the land lies, how we acquire it, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and, finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the...

"In the high country of New Mexico, the land made the men, and Spencer Stanton wanted a hunk of it for his empire. But there were those who were bent on giving him a rough ride. Some were bunched up against him--the Yanqui-hating Mexicans to the south and the blood-hungry Utes to the north. Some were strung out alone--land-grabbing drifters with steel in their hearts and in their holsters, men like Hagen, a wagon boss turned-killer who still carried...

"From the time she crossed the Rio Grande, it was plain that Ann Royer was going to cause some changes in Del Rio, Texas. Bringing the news of her parents' murder and the destruction of their ranch in Mexico, she had ridden alone all the way to Texas to lay claim to the giant Twin R ranch ostensibly belonging to her uncle Phil. Ann wasn't alone in wanting the Twin R. Old man Pease, owner of the neighboring Lazy P, was anxious to double the size of...

"Only a hunted fugitive stood between a logger baron and an empire of ruined ranches! When Buck Temple got out of the Territorial death house, he headed straight back to Coppertooth Pass with vengeance in his triggers. A liar's perjured testimony had cost Buck his ranch, his friends, his girl -- and almost his life. But there was more behind that frame-up than Buck realized. It took a bushwhacker's bullet to show Buck that he was in a bigger fight...