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The Apache Life as it was actually lived Witness the creation of a new American Indian hero in "Ulzana", James R. Olson's award winning novel. Olson has rediscovered a true Indian hero, a Chiricahua Apache warrior who epitomizes the best qualities of his tribe-courage, strength, and above all, a great knowledge and understanding of nature's world. The Apache life-way in this story is presented as it had actually been lived-the way Ulzana really experienced it. The novel traces Ulzana's life from his birth in the rugged Dragoon Mountains of Arizona, through his childhood, his training as a warrior, and his life as a husband and father. Now a new enemy invades Apache lands from the east, an enemy who will prove too numerous and tenacious for the Chiricahua to resist. After reading Morris Edward Opler's definitive anthropological work, "An Apache Lifeway", which was based on interviews with Apaches who remembered how they had lived, loved, and worshipped before the Americans corrupted their life-way, Olson realized much of what he had believed about Apaches Olson decided to create a novel that described the Apache's lifestyle as it had actually been lived. "Ulzana" is part of a three books series Olson wrote about the Chiricahua Apaches. "Brother" deals with the Spanish missionary period, "Ulzana" covers the American Indian Wars, and "Injun" presents the unique final disposition of the Chiricahua Apaches after the Indian Wars. Find Out More At http://www.booksbyol son.com
