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the name, The Squaw Kid, derived from the 9 years he lived in Indian country with three Pend d'Oreille Indian wives named, In-wholise, Squis-squis, and Mal-lit-tay-lay. Little Big Man was actually
the name of an Indian warrior.
Over the next six years in Musselshell, Montana, he observed the
last wave of Buffalo extermination and final throes of effort by the
Plains Indians to resist their own extermination at the hands of the
new Americans. His nine years with Indian wives, mentioned
above, were his most meaningful and final connection to the wild
and beautiful, natural order of his world that apparently centered
him. Although the second half of his life was spent in what many
people would describe a western paradise with his white wife, Barbara Voll, raising four healthy sons on his 667 acres of beautiful,
forested Montana ranchland, what prompted him to begin writing
was the fact that he was never again quite so happy as when he
lived amount the Indians in the open wilderness. He died in 1943,
having resisted efforts to publish his work out of fear that the true
history of his time would be corrupted. His greatest fears were realized a quarter-century later, when Hollywood indeed, changed and
distorted his story and actual history in the movie, Little Big Man.
For a paper back edition go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Tough-Trip-Through-Paradise-1878-1879/
dp/0893012505

On the Goodreads website you will find 82 ratings and 16
reviews of the book.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/
show/824127.Tough_Trip_Through_Paradise_1878_1879

If you like watch this thirty minute video by the Montana
Historical Society on Andrew Garcia and his book.

Andrew Garcia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QarZyzoDihs

Every Solstice in the small town of Hot Springs, Montana a group of people create this labyrinth with
candles and mason jars. People can come to the Towanda Garden and walk the labyrinth for hours as
the longest night of the year descends. A large bonfire and musicians are an adde d bonus.

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