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\nThe New York Times bestselli ng author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Every thing returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary &mdash\;an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America.
\nIn 1872\, sixteen-year-old Goes First\, a Crow Native wom an\, marries Abe Farwell\, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary\ , and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hil ls of Saskatchewan\, Canada. Along the way\, she finds a fast friend in a Mé\;tis named Jeannie\; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Sti ller\; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell&rsquo\;s past\, falls in love with her husband.
\nThe winter trading season passes peacef ully. Then\, on the eve of their return to Montana\, a group of drunken wh iskey traders slaughters forty Nakota&mdash\;despite Farwell&rsquo\;s effo rts to stop them. Mary\, hiding from the hail of bullets\, sees the murder ers\, including Stiller\, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She b egs Farwell to save them\, and when he refuses\, Mary takes two guns\, cre eps into the fort\, and saves the women from certain death. Thus\, she set s off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwe ll and Crow Mary to the breaking point.
\nCrow Mary sweeps across de cades and the landscape of the upper West and Canada\, showcasing the beau ty of the natural world\, while at the same time probing the intimacies of a marriage and one woman&rsquo\;s heart.
\n--From Goodreads.com
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