Westward Wings The Hawk

by Joseph C. Bransby


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 5/18/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 492
ISBN : 9780759616714

About the Book

Westward Wings The Hawk is broad in content, dealing with the impact of American settlements on the life and culture of Indian Tribes in the Mid-Missouri River Basin, an area stretching from present day Kansas City to Pierre, South Dakota. The time frame is the 1840’s, a period of heavy migration by white Americans moving westward across the Great Plains. This historic novel provides the reader a view of events from the Indian perspective. The primary vehicle for the story is a young white man raised from boyhood by a childless Ponca Indian couple whose life style is indelibly impressed on his psyche. Caught up in armed conflict between settlers and Indian occupants of the land he finds his destiny in the love of two women.


About the Author

Joseph Bransby, the author, is a retired YMCA professional with 42 years of association experience, 18 of which were spent as president of the YMCA of metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. An avocational archaeologist and historian with special interest in pre-Columbian Indian culture, he has appeared before numerous civic and community organizations throughout the country, including elder hostels, speaking on the American Indian.

A Rotarian, he has served as an officer in three rotary clubs, is a past member of both the national board and international committee of the YMCA, and currently serves on the board of trustees of the YMCA blue ridge conference center near Asheville, North Carolina. A W.W.II veteran, he directed a YMCA-USO operation before entering military service. A former college wrestling coach, Mr. Bransby began his "Y" career as a physical director with the St. Paul, Minnesota association.

His archaeological fieldwork includes "digs" in the mid-west and southwest. He is a member of A.I.A., the archaeological conservancy, the Native American rights fund, and the new national museum of the American Indian (NMAI). He is a former board member of the Bailey chapter of the Iowa archaeological society. Mr. Bransby and his wife, Louise, reside in Atlanta.