The Long Way Home
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After a lifetime of watching ? from the ridge above a Cheyenne village to the barracks at Fort Robinson ? Watches Twice seeks only the river, the land, and silence.
Then Eme?keha'e enters his life: a Cheyenne woman who walked the long road north, who has buried a child in Oklahoma dust and now works at the boarding school that is slowly unmaking her people. Together they build a home on the Tongue River ? two pans on one shelf, two horses in one corral, two scarred souls learning to share the weight.
Yet the country continues its remaking. Children are punished for speaking their own language. The land that was walked home to is divided and sold. And the question remains: in a world that counts silver and body counts but not memory or justice, what truly counts?
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Person
William Mann writes literary fiction grounded in place and history. His work ranges from autofiction to historical novels of the American West, with a particular interest in landscapes shaped by hard weather and harder choices.
He lives full-time on the road in an RV with his wife, Chris, and their two dogs, Bronn and Sadie, traveling the country in pursuit of the terrain his books inhabit ? the high plains of Montana, the Black Hills, the rolling creek country of southeast Kansas. He writes in the early mornings, before the day gets in the way.
The Long Reckoning, his ongoing historical series, examines the American frontier through the lives of those who lived its endings.
