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When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life.

Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, Dan Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa's long life is driven by a dramatic vis

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Black Hills: A Novel by Dan Simmons Book Review

Name: Gary Griffiths
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An American Odyssey
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2010
Review: While Amazon reader reviews of "Black Hills" are mixed, there was no doubt in my mind: this was a knockout - an epic slice of United States history that while fictional, accurately covers a wide swaths of American culture. At the same time, the extraordinary Dan Simmons creates in the Sioux/Lakota Paha Sapa one of the most complex, intriguing and likeable protagonists I've read in years. The story jumps off the first page at the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn - "Custer's Last Stand" - when eleven year-old Paha Sapa (literally "Black Hills" in Lakota) is the last person to see Custer alive. To his horror, the slain Colonel's ghost enters the young Indian, providing Simmons a convenient way of telling Custer's own story in parallel with that of the lives, legends, and sorrows of the native tribes of the Great Plains. The ambitious and non-linear plot covers two main stories centered in South Dakota's Black Hills - on one hand, the clash between the Indians and the advancing US Calvary, and on the other, the story of the now seventy year-old Paha Sapa and the carving of the Mount Rushmore National Monument under the firm but respected hand of egotistical sculptor Gutzon Borglum. In between, Simmons manages to capture fascinating snapshots of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 (including Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show), the horror of the Midwest Dust Bowl, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and even a glimpse of trench warfare in the fields of France in WWI.

You can always count on some mischief from Dan Simmons, and he doesn't fail here, despite the serious content matter. This disembodied Custer's ghost, unaware of his metaphysical state, spends his time composing letters to his beloved wife Libby, portrayed as a lusty and adventurous young woman, totally un-Victorian in her views on sex and the role of women in society. As Paha Soba ages and learns English, he understands more about the white spirit he is hosting, and by the end of the book Soba-Custer are beginning to look a lot like the Tony Randall - Jack Klugman Odd Couple. Some of the pornographic love scenes between Libby and General George will shock the senses, only to be whiplashed back to the brutality on and off the battlefield with unthinkable barbarism practiced by both sides. Through it all, Paha Soba - by now aka "Billie Slow Horse" - trudges through one personal tragedy in his life after another - a long-suffering victim of race, culture, and simple bad luck - while never losing his integrity or honor. And true to form, Simmons throws in a neat twist at the end - make that a few twists - to finish as surprising as it is satisfying.

While some may be put off by the supernatural angle of Dan Simmons' work, it is consistent with the beliefs of the Native Americans, while capturing the brutality of the rituals endured by mere children in reaching adulthood. The story is poignant but never maudlin, powerful but not melodramatic. Simmons loves to teach - and this is a wonderfully informative book - but is never pedantic. He teaches his history through anecdotes and vignettes that run the gamut from sentiment and affection to brutality and sheer terror, setting a pace that keeps the reader delightfully off balance and inextricably glued to the pages. Simmons has no agenda here - this is not the typical bleedy-heart diatribe more typical of books covering the plight of Native Americans, but neither does it condone the actions and betrayals of the United States. This is thought provoking material told wish passion and raw emotion - a powerful lesson in race, culture, religion and ecology.

On the heels of "The Terror" and "Druid", I'd argue that "Black Hills" places Simmons on the top of a short list of writers who can combine serious historical fiction with raw entertainment. And given Simmons' prolificacy and diversity of his subjects, it would be hard to argue that he is not the most versatile of accomplished American fiction writers. In short, "Black Hills" is without a doubt one of the top novels I've read in the past few years - that rare novel that will be haunting me long after its back on the shelf. Bravo.

Name: Matthew A. Bille
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Compelling historical epic with a supernatural touch (4.5 stars)
Date: Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2015
Review: The Race Track is the Lakota term for an oval depression surrounding the Black Hills of South Dakota. Here, they believe, animals of earth and sky competed in a grueling contest to determine who should rule the world. But in this book, the Race Track is more like the edges of a wound, where the knife of history, with its social and technological "progress," stabbed through the heart of Native American culture and indeed of North America. In Black Hills, Simmons explores the thrust of this great knife through an epic brimming with compelling characters and amazing historical detail.
Simmons has crafted his most memorable character in the Lakota boy Paha Sapa, whose life stretches from the Battle of Little Big Horn to the Space Age - and beyond, thanks to a supernatural gift that he often wishes he never had. It's a very tricky thing for a writer to hop back and forth between time periods, but Simmons is sure-handed in following his protagonist - a good man of curiosity and considerable intelligence - through the demise of his culture and the rise of America to a world power. Paha Sapa has an intense spiritual connection with what he believes to be the ghost of George Armstrong Custer, whom he touches as a boy counting coup for the first time. He also has a gift for looking back and forth through the lives of people he touches. This makes him a catalyst in events he has foreseen but cannot change, and the resulting helplessness takes him more than once into a place of despair. He often sees himself as a failure and is ready to give up on life after he tries to commit a cataclysmic act of defiance toward the white world and can't bring himself to do it: even his morality, it seems, gets in his way. But life has more in store for Paha Sapa than even his psychic gifts can tell him to expect, and there are rewards waiting for him as well as heartbreak. Along the way, Simmons being the master of historical research, we learn a lot about every situation Paha Sapa finds himself in, from the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition to the carving of Mount Rushmore, from the childhood games of the Lakota to a vision of the future. Some reviewers don't like that vision, and it does feel a bit tacked on, but it for many readers it will be an introduction to the concept of "rewilding" a great stretch of North America. If that vision goes beyond what may be achievable, it's still a future that many of us wish could happen.
Simmons' people, from Custer (whose sexual reminiscences are offered in a bit too much detail) to a myriad of other historical figures as well as entirely fictional characters,are all well-drawn. If 20th-century American literature was too full of wonderfully heroic, morally driven pioneers and greedy savage redskins, and 21st-century writings make it the other way around, Simmons avoids the extremes and gives us people we want to take this great journey with. Likewise, his view of technology presents the good, the bad, and the transformative: even as the advances of the wasicu (whites, or more literally Fat Takers) spell the end of traditional life, they also amaze Paha Sapa with their possibilities. (As a writer with some knowledge of the history of technology, I usually look for nitpicks on that topic in any book I read: if Simmons made any mistakes, I didn't find them.)
So I encourage readers to touch the hand of Paha Sapa, connect with his spirit, and follow his life. Black Hills is a voyage into history and humanity that will entertain you while giving you a lot to think about.

- Matt Bille, author, The First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellites (NASA/TAMU, 2004), www.mattwriter.com