YUCCA WOMAN

A Mountain Stands
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Astoundingly historically correct, Yucca Woman blazes into being when Stands Tall, a maiden of the Arckaree Tribe, stabs the chief’s son, Broken Horn, when he attempts a brutal rape that is stopped before he is able to plant his evil sperm into the womb of a maiden who loathes him. Leaving the tribe, Stands Tall and her grandmother, Wolf Mother, starts out on a trip that takes them into the blood soaked pages of Colorado history. Traumatized by her first sexual encounter that turns her against the opposite sex, the Native American youth hides out in a secret cave that only Wolf Mother knows about. Content to live by themselves –and a cub puma- the two women keep away from others until the French fur trapper, Jean, forces her into a world she has tried to avoid.
Robert Hill has skillfully woven a tale from historical events that brings the State of Colorado from a Mexican owned frontier outpost into a territory of the rapidly expanding United States of America. Moving with the lore of Native Americans into the White man’s world, Stands Tall leaves her people to become a lady in a raw frontier world where events are marked by flaming arrows and deadly bullets that turns mountains and plains into the beginning of a civilized world where parents can safely raise their families.
Beaver furs, gold, silver, cattle, soldiers, warriors, and homesteaders mix with Native American mythology and customs to make a novel you can’t put down until the very last word. Author Hill has done it again by bringing history searing across the Colorado sky by telling a love story that will live into the reader’s mind for a long time if not forever.

A Robert Hill

A Robert Hill