Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel which combines history, fantasy, and allegory as it covers one thousand years of American history including "Native American myth., Chinese alchemy, and European esotericism". An association copy, INSCRIBED to another writer on the half title page ""For --- with best wishes and blessings for the coming Great Millennial Shift" and dated in Oakland, CA in the year of publication and also SIGNED on the title page. Praise from Jim Harrison and Maxine Hong Kingston on the dust jacket. Smith was the editor the noteworthy literary journal 'Caliban.' Volume 24 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series. Cover art and interior decorations by Selena L. Englehart. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-8061-29565.