Tie My Bones to Her Back: A Novel

By Robert F. Jones

A young woman braves an unforgiving western frontier in a historical saga “more successful than Dances with Wolves” (The New York Times Book Review).
 
After the death of her German immigrant parents, seventeen-year-old Jenny Dousmann leaves her Wisconsin home to join her brother Otto, a Civil War veteran and buffalo hunter roaming the Great Plains where whites and Native Americans are in constant battle. But their hope for prosperity is daunted by the scarcity of prey and a savage winter that tests their limits of survival.
 
Then they are discovered, near death, by Two Shields, a Cheyenne who vows to keep them safe. But they must become members of Two Shields’s tribe, and learn to hunt and live like his people. Jenny and Otto must decide if they should continue to depend on only each other, or if they should put their lives in the hands of a man who is supposed to be their enemy.
 
When they make their choice, the headstrong Jenny is soon stripped of her civilization’s customs and inhibitions. In joining her adopted tribe as a fierce and indomitable warrior, she’ll find her true destiny.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Feb 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781628739404

Robert F. Jones

Robert F. Jones was a novelist, contributing editor to Men’s Journal, and writer for Sports Illustrated and Field & Stream. His books include Blood Sport, as well as multiple other works of fiction and nonfiction, among them the award-winning Jake and Upland Passage. He spent much of his life in western Vermont.

Reviews for Tie My Bones to Her Back

[amante_2 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I don't usually read westerns and this book reminds why I dislike the genre. It is pulp fiction, reminiscent of the badly written books of the 1870s and 1880s.