Books by Mardi Oakley Medawar and Complete Book Reviews
Mardi Oakley Medawar, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-312-20938-4
The first in Medawar's (The Ft. Larned Incident, etc.) new contemporary series gets off to a bang with the shooting death of tribal attorney Judah Boiseneau. True enough, the man might have deserved killing, but Red Cliff Reservation police...
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Mardi Oakley Medawar, Author Affiliated Writers of America/Publishers $19.95 (442p) ISBN 978-1-879915-05-3
Medawar's expansive first novel of life among the Crow Indians has large ambitions but succeeds merely in giving a Native American patina to a generic example of the historical, multigenerational saga. Born to a pioneering family on the Montana...
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Mardi Oakley Medawar, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20878-3
Looking back on his younger days on the Plains, circa 1870, Kiowa doctor and sometime sleuth Tay-bodal focuses as much on tribal customs as he does on murder and attempted murder in his fourth appearance (after Murder at Medicine Lodge). Tay-bodal...
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Mardi Oakley Medawar, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14310-7
Modern-thinking Kiowa healer Tay-bodal, whose study of anatomy and physiology sets him apart from other tribal doctors in the north of Texas in 1866, is caught up in tribal politics after one of its warriors is murdered. War threatens when handsome...
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Mardi Oakley Medawar, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-17065-3
Tay-bodal, a Kiowa herbalist and doctor, is the protagonist of this well-researched but weakly plotted historical series. Recently married to the testy Crying Wind (Death at Rainy Mountain, 1996), Tay-bodal is a young man unallied with any clan. He's
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Mardi Oakley Medawar, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-19925-8
While attending a peace conference with federal government officials at Medicine Lodge, Okla., the Kiowa representative, White Bear, is accused of murdering a U.S. Army bugler. Though 19th-century Kiowa healer Tay-bodal and his tribesmen quickly...
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