Stand To Horse Andre Norton

Stunningly fresh, as new, in green cloth with black spine titles; in a fine, fresh, beautiful, bright illustrated dust jacket showing a tiny closed edge tear and faint associated creasing at the spine crown. Norton, the first woman to be named Gandalf Master of Fantasy, to be SFWA Grand Master, and to be inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, here steps out of her genre into the Wild West. "In pre Civil War Santa Fe, a young soldier faces Apache raiders, starvation, and more in some of the best Western-writing to show up in a long time" (Chicago Tribune). "A novel of men in the Army, in the Southwest during the trying period of the Apache raids, is tersely written and packed with action as it describes Private Ritchie Peters' first months in Company K of the First Dragoons in Santa Fe. Quite simply, the plot is one of battles and bad men, based on research into the history of the period, but the characters are more closely examined for what they are worth than in the ordinary adventure. We get a look at their motives as well as their actions, the enemy becomes understandable and Ritchie and Herndon, the sergeant whom he had disliked at first, fully realize the tragic effects of the white man's relentless energies. But they know too that they now belong to the land and both look forward to a less warlike future."--Kirkus Reviews. Jacket design by Edwin Schmidt. Very scarce. Free insurance.