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Crow Mary
Crow Mary: A Novel | Kathleen Grissom
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The New York Times bestselling author of the touching (The Boston Globe) book club classics The Kitchen House and the emotionally rewarding (Booklist) Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Maryan indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America. In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Mtis named Jeannie; makes a life-long enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwells past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakotadespite Farwells efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point. From an author with a stirring and uplifting (David R. Gillham, New York Times bestselling author) voice, Crow Mary sweeps across decades and the landscape of the upper West and Canada, showcasing the beauty of the natural world, while at the same time probing the intimacies of a marriage and one womans heart.
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Aimeesue
Crow Mary: A Novel | Kathleen Grissom
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Goes First makes me laugh. Just, you know, she COULD.

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Aimeesue
Crow Mary: A Novel | Kathleen Grissom
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Goes First, a young Crow woman, marries a white fur trader in 1872. They make the long journey to Saskatchewan to set up a trading post. They are about to return to Montana when a bunch of drunk whiskey traders attacks and kills 40 Nakota and take five Nakota women back to their fort. Goes First‘s husband will not go to rescue them, so she does.

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Djspens
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A cold snowy morning to finish this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ historical fiction! Based on the true life of Crow Mary, as she marries Abe Farwell, a fur trader, and the life they lived in Canada and back to her Crow land and family in the late 1800s. Such a well written story depicting yet another part of our history that makes me shake my head…. #bookphotography #grammaslibrary #kathleengrissom #litsy #crowmary

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Cathyloves2read
Crow Mary: A Novel | Kathleen Grissom
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This is the 2nd book I‘ve read by this author and each was as good as the other. Crow Mary was such a heroic, strong woman who was very dedicated to her Indian family. She married a white fur trader, who she tried to be dedicated to as well. She had to fight many evils in her lifetime, including her husband‘s severe alcoholism. I did a mixture between the audio and the written version. The narrator was very good. I recommend this book.

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Mpcacher
Crow Mary: A Novel | Kathleen Grissom
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Mary was an actual Crow native woman who married a white man. When a group of white men slaughter forty Nakota and Mary witnesses both the killing and the abduction of five women, she pleads for help in rescuing them. Told it was too dangerous she rescues them by herself. The author got help in writing this wonderful fictionalized story from Mary's great granddaughter. It was a wonderful look at the two cultures and a tribute to this hero. 5/5