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Faraway Blue
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Faraway Blue Paperback - 2005

by Max Evans

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Sergeant Moses Williams is a black horseback fighter in a white man's campaign to eradicate the Indian. While Williams is pursuing an old Apache chief who leads strikes on mining camps, he rescues a mulatto woman from a brothel and falls in love. His lover takes a desperate chance during his final meeting with the enemy.

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From the publisher

"Evans paints marvelous word pictures of a land and people he knows extremely well."--Booklist

"As always with Evans, written with a good sense of the times and place."--Kirkus

First published in 1999, Faraway Blue is based on the real-life exploits of Sergeant Moses Williams, former slave, Civil War veteran, and Buffalo Soldier in the Ninth Cavalry Regiment. Included in Moses's story are four women and two men representing the ethnic groups and economic levels found in the late 1800s American Southwest.

At the story's opening, Williams's cavalry unit has one assignment: kill Apaches in the "faraway blue" mountains of southwestern New Mexico Territory, also known as the Black Range. As a fighter in the white man's campaign to obliterate the Indians and take over their lands, Williams finds a nemesis in Nana, an old Warm Springs Apache warrior who is a tactical genius. Nana leads his small band of followers to repeatedly strike area mining camps and settlements. Both men know they must meet before the end of the war and a maddening cat-and-mouse pursuit ensues.

Williams is sustained by his love for Sheela Jones, a mulatto whom he wants to marry when the army will allow it. But Sheela's love for Moses guides her to take an immense risk just as Moses and Nana ride out to settle their score.

From the rear cover

Faraway Blue is based on the real-life exploits of Sergeant Moses Williams, former slave, Civil War veteran, and Buffalo Soldier.

Details

  • Title Faraway Blue
  • Author Max Evans
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of New Mexico Press
  • Publication date 2005-10-01
  • ISBN 9780826335852 / 0826335853
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.5 x 0.74 in (20.47 x 13.97 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Country/Cowboy
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005007580
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Max Evans is the author of over thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. He is the recipient of the Spur, Wrangler, and Owen Wister awards, and he is the subject of the biography Ol' Max Evans: The First Thousand Years and a documentary film of the same title. Evans has made his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for over fifty years.

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