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Follow the Wind
The Long Journey Home
The buffalo now stood still, facing the girl called Eagle Woman. She rode the gray horse slowly forward, and the cow blinked suspiciously, then turned to run.
The run was straight away. Eagle Woman held tightly with her knees and let the finely trained horse approach on the animal's right side. It was a difficult shot, impossible, almost. The girl concentrated on placing her arrow precisely as the brown blur of the moving form darted past. At the same time the horse had begun to drop its haunches in a sliding pivot Momentum carried the rider forward, over the horse's head, to crash heavily on the ground. Men rushed forward. The cow lay kicking, but the other form on the grass was still.
Long Walker was the first to reach her, cradling her head in his lap. Dully she smiled at the young man.
Another hunter rode up and dismounted. “Well,” he commented, “at least she made her kill!”
Long Walker had reached the height of his tension for the morning. He looked up indignantly at the speaker. “Stupid one!” he shouted. “This is her
third
kill! Did you make three kills today?”
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously.
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DAUGHTER OF THE EAGLE
Copyright © 1984 by Don Coldsmith
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eISBN 9781466820951
First eBook Edition : May 2012
EAN 978-0812-57970-3
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First edition: January 2003
First mass market edition: July 2004