New York: Henry Holt, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, one which tells the stories of the myths of the settling of the West - a young girl kidnapped by Indians in Texas in 1852, toddlers who fell off a buckboard in 1859 raised by coyotes, a young brave in 1874 who has a vision that he is invincible and so will lead his people to disaster and more - and de-mythologizes them. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-805061487.