Winter of the Metal People: The Untold Story of America's First Indian War

Winter of the Metal People: The Untold Story of America's First Indian War by Herrick, Dennis. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781620062371.

This historical novel is now available in a second edition at amazon.com/dp/1620068265/The book adds for the first time the Indian point of viewto the Spanish chronicles about Coronados expedition in Americas first named Indian war. Coronados Spaniards and Mexican Indian alliesfought the Tiguex War against the Pueblo Indians between present-dayAlbuquerque and Santa Fe in 1540-42. The novel follows a youngPueblo warrior who reluctantly takes leadership of his people in a timeof crisis, overcoming self-doubt to lead Puebloans in guerilla warfareagainst the Spaniards. Praise for Winter of the Metal People and author Dennis Herrick "A riveting historical novel of immense scholarship and insight. DennisHerrick makes the story of the first American Indians in the West toface the military might of European forces as vivid and real as ifCoronados expedition had ridden out of Mexico yesterday. Winter of the Metal People will forever influence your perception of the stunning landscapes andrich culture of the Southwest."--Margaret Coel, author of Killing Custer "In Winter of the Metal People Dennis Herrick, journalist and award-winning writer of fiction, offersus a consummately humane novel of the first encounters between Pueblopeoples of the Southwest and a European, African, and Native Americanexpedition led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in the early 1540s.Herrick skillfully brings the Native side of those encounters into vivid focus. We are brought to imagine the complexity and variety of Puebloreactions as they struggle to come to grips with the foreign presenceand how it violently impacts their lives and traditions."--RichardFlint, Historian, author of No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada "A vivid historical novel that brings to life the epic winter of 1540-41as Spanish and Pueblo Indian worlds first collided. Herricksnarrative--driven by extant annals of the Coronado expedition, recentarchaeological research, and Pueblo accounts--is the closest we willever get to standing on a hill above an ancient Pueblo community andwitnessing the gritty reality of history. It is a masterful eyeopener."--David E. Stuart, Professor of Anthropology, University of NewMexico, author of Prehistoric New Mexico, Anasazi America, and The Ancient Southwest