Book Descriptions
for The Ghost and Lone Warrior by C.J. Taylor
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
In the days before horses, the people had to walk everywhere, even when they were hunting buffalo. When Lone Warrior injures his ankle on such a hunt, he is left behind by the rest of the hunting party who promise to return in a few days. Months pass and they never return, nor does Lone Warrior's ankle heal. But his struggle to survive is eventually rewarded one night when he is visited by the spirit of an ancestor who has an explanation for everything that has happened. This fine retelling of an Arapaho legend is accompanied by full-color paintings by a Mohawk artist. (Ages 5-9)
CCBC Choices 1991. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1991. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Retells the Arapaho legend of Lone Warrior, who was crippled in a hunting accident and left behind, where he had to cope with hunger, cold, despair, and the appearance of a skeleton ghost from a nearby grave, and still express his gratitude to the animals he must kill in order to survive, and maintain his dignity. This Arapaho legend shows the courage, endurance and spiritual values of those who hunted the buffalo on foot.
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