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By Tyler Trafford
Without
dropping a moment of drama, Sun On The Mountains challenges
the traditional perspectives of Western Canadian history,
blending European and Native mythologies and introducing characters
as unique as Hannah James and Thinks Like A Woman.
 The
first book in The Sun On The Mountains series, Blue Eye, opens
at a full gallop across the western prairie controlled by
the powerful Blackfoot Horse Culture of the early1800's. Blue
Eye James, The Sun Dance scarred descendent of a Philadelphia
Quaker, leads his Piikani friends and their horse herds across
enemy territories to American and British posts where his
beliefs in equality, honesty and pacifism are tested by ruthless
Cree raiders, slavery, whiskey forts, and colonial agendas.
Other books in the series include stories from Revolutionary
Philadelphia, the Canadian fur trading era, and the development
of the Western Canadian ranching, farming and oil industries.
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