The Bone Pickers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bone Pickers write by Al Dewlen. This book was released on 2002. The Bone Pickers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Against the flamboyant background of the "Golden Spread," the oil-rich Panhandle of the late 1950s, Al Dewlen has poised a full-scale and truly original novel of one Texas family--the Mungers of Amarillo. The six Munger siblings are the heirs of hard-drinking, hardscrabble farmer Cecil Munger, who in one generation brought his family from Dust Bowl poverty to unfathomable wealth. Wayward humor, warmth and passion, vigorous and imaginative revelation silhouette their individual rebelliousness against the debilitating restrictions of the family empire.
The Bone Pickers. The Golden Touch, Etc
The Bone Pickers. The Golden Touch, Etc - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bone Pickers. The Golden Touch, Etc write by Al Dewlen. This book was released on 1959. The Bone Pickers. The Golden Touch, Etc available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Bone Picker
The Bone Picker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bone Picker write by Devon A. Mihesuah. This book was released on 2024-10-08. The Bone Picker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ways will speak of him. The frightening bone picker is just one of many entities, scary and mysterious, who lurk behind every page of this spine-tingling collection of Native fiction, written by award-winning Choctaw author Devon A. Mihesuah. Choctaw lore features a large pantheon of deities. These beings created the first people, taught them how to hunt, and warned them of impending danger. Their stories are not meant simply to entertain: each entity has a purpose in its behavior and a lesson to share—to those who take heed. As a Choctaw citizen, with deep ties to Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Mihesuah grew up hearing the stories of her ancestors. In the tradition of Native storytelling, she spins tales that move back and forth fluidly across time. The ancient beings, we discover, followed the tribe from their original homelands in Mississippi and are now ever-present influences on tribal consciousness. While some of the horrors told here are “real life” in nature, the art of fiction that Mihesuah employs reveals surprising outcomes or alternative histories. It turns out the things that scare us the most can lead to the answers we are seeking and even ensure our very survival.
The Bonepicker
The Bonepicker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bonepicker write by Lu Clifton. This book was released on 2017-04-01. The Bonepicker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's bitter cold in Oklahoma's Ouachita Wilderness when Detective Sam Chitto of the Choctaw Tribal Police takes on a thirty-five year old cold case involving a missing Vietnam vet and murdered couple. The discovery of a man's skull in the casket of the murdered woman, which her family had disinterred for further investigation, attracts the attention of the Vietnam veteran's mother. Believing the skull to be that of her son, she tasks Chitto with becoming a Bonepicker, returning his bones so his spirit can rest. Because bones survived flesh, Choctaw of old preserved the bones of their deceased, believing their essence dwelled within. Honored people, called Bonepickers, retrieved the bones for the family.When his preliminary investigation reveals former suspects in the murder investigation have a shorter-than-average life span, Chitto goes looking for the reason. As he unravels the mystery, long-held secret that have kept county residents living in terror the past thirty-five years begin to tumble. Incidents in the Vietnam conflict and the long-term effects of warfare on the four veterans in the story add depth.Fulfilling his role as Bonepicker, Chitto returns the bones to the family. However, the killer is above the law. Or so it seems. A macabre twist at the end ensures that justice prevails.
The Bone Pickers of Tom Green County
The Bone Pickers of Tom Green County - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bone Pickers of Tom Green County write by E. Lee Fisher. This book was released on 2010-06. The Bone Pickers of Tom Green County available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
