Be Chuzi About The Books You Read!

Dear Readers: Every year at the State Fair, someone asks us which Don Coldsmith book was first in the Spanish Bit Saga. Finally I did some research and found the books he's written listed with their publication dates. Some of these titles are out of print, but anything that's still in print we can get for you. (I haven't noted which are which because the books' status can change quickly.) Let us know if you need something to fill out your collection. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Spanish Bit Saga, Wikipedia calls it "arguably Coldsmith's best known work (that) chronicles the unique moment in history when the horse was introduced to the Plains Indians by Spanish explorers, two of whom are separated from their party and are adopted by a fictional Plains tribe. The adventures and experiences of the explorers' Spanish-Indian descendants make up the bulk of the Spanish Bit series." I think the following quote of Don Coldsmith explains why his books are so popular and so widely read: "My goal has always been that I would write historically accurate enough that nobody can prove it didn't happen. I don't claim that it did. I claim it could have and I defy anybody to prove it didn't and I think it's intellectually dishonest to distort history and so I'm just not going to do it."

Spanish Bit Saga:
1 Trail of the Spanish Bit 1980
2 Buffalo Medicine 1981
3 The Elk-Dog Heritage 1982
4 Follow the Wind #2 1983
5 Man of the Shadows 1983
6 Daughter of the Eagle 1984
7 Moon of Thunder 1985
8 The Sacred Hills 1985
9 Pale Star 1986
10 River of Swans 1986
11 Return to the River 1987
12 The Medicine Knife 1988
13 The Flower in the Mountains 1988
14 Trail From Taos 1989
15 Song of the Rock 1989
The Changing Wind 1990
16 Fort De Chastaigne 1990
17 Quest for the White Bull 1990
18 Return of the Spanish 1991
19 The Bride of the Morning Star 1991
The Traveler 1991
20 Walks in the Sun 1992
21 Thunderstick 1993
22 Track of the Bear 1994
23 Child of the Dead 1995
24 Bearer of the Pipe 1995
25 Medicine Hat 1998
26 The Lost Band 2000
27 Raven Mocker 2001
28 The Pipestone Quest 2004
29 Moon of Madness 2008
Novels:
1 World of Silence 1992
2 Runestone 1995
3 The Santa Fe Trail is Born 1996
4 Tallgrass 1997
5 Kenzas 1997
6 South Wind 1998
7 The Long Journey Home 2001
Omnibus:
1 Trail of the Spanish Bit / Elk Dog Heritage / Follow the Wind / Changing Wind 1991
2 Changing Wind / Traveler / World of Silence 1997
3 The Don Coldsmith Omnibus 1997
Non-Fiction (Reprint of his Newspaper Columns):
1 Horsin' Around 1975
2 Horsin' Around Again 1981
3 Still Horsin' Around 2004

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