Black Hills: A Novel

by Dan Simmons

Paha Sapa, 'Black Hills', is an American Indian shaman who, as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn, believes that he has taken the ghost of the dying General Custer into his body.

Sixty years later, while working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, Paha Sapa plots to blow up the monument. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife.

Thus begins an intricate, visionary story that sweeps across some of the most tumultuous and violent periods of American history, from the old West to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and into our own time and beyond.

• ISBN10: 031600698X
• ISBN13: 9780316006989
• Publish Date: 24 February 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 16 June 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Reagan Arthur Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 487
• Language: English

Reviews

[Eve1972]

I really enjoyed this one a lot, it was beautifully written and the story compelling. The only things holding me back from granting it 5 stardom, where the overly horny General Custer passages (I'm no prude, but dude, get a room)and the ending was a bit of a let down. Overall though a fantastic historical fiction read!