Tie My Bones to Her Back (36 page)

On his spoor the white wolves follow, lured yet lulled by his voice, hungry, timid, working up courage—biding their time.

Awaiting their moment.

Bibliographical Note

In writing this story, the author gained valuable insights and information from many works, most especially:

W. Philo Clark.
The Indian Sign Language, with Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures Taught Deaf-Mutes in Our Institutions for Their Instruction, and a Description of Some of the Peculiar Laws, Customs, Myths, Superstitions, Ways of Living, Code of Peace and War Signals of Our Aborigines
(1885).

John R. Cook.
The Border and the Buffalo
(1907).

Olive K. Dixon.
The Life of “Billy” Dixon
(1927).

English-Cheyenne Student Dictionary.
The Northern Cheyenne Language and Cultural Center (1976).

Shelby Foote.
The Civil War: A Narrative
, 3 vols. (1974).

George Bird Grinnell.
The Cheyenne Indians
, 2 vols. (1925).

————.The Fighting Cheyennes
(1915).

William T. Hornaday.
The Extermination of the American Bison: Report of the National Museum, 1887
(1889).

James I. Merritt.
Baronets & Buffalo
(1985).

Alan T. Nolan.
The Iron Brigade: A Military History
(1961).

George F. Ruxton.
Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains
(1847).