Ursula K. Le Guin selected Crazy Weather for her contribution to Pharos Editions citing Charles McNichols “offhanded skill, the ease with which (he) takes us deep into a complex society and the complex minds and hearts of its people.” In four days of «glory-hunting» with an Indian comrade, South Boy, who is white, realizes he must choose between two cultures. Le Guin explains how she finds Crazy Weather to be “about a soul not at home and not at peace: South Boy, who on the verge of manhood is living in and between two worlds, without a clear way to go in either.” Crazy Weather is a unique tale of American identity that serves as “an important document in our cultural history.”
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Charles L. McNichols. Crazy Weather
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Preface by Natachee Scott Momaday. AS TOLD TO JAY FULTZ
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. CRAZY WEATHER
CHAPTER II. THE HAWKS
CHAPTER III. THE DREAM SINGERS
CHAPTER IV. RUNAWAY
CHAPTER V. THE WOMEN
CHAPTER VI. THE LAST WAR CLUB
CHAPTER VII. PAINTED HORSES
CHAPTER VIII. THE MORMONHATER
CHAPTER IX. BATTLE TELLING
CHAPTER X. THE PIUTE
CHAPTER XI. DIES IRAE
CHAPTER XII. DEATH AND THE DOCTOR
CHAPTER XIII. THE ALYAH
CHAPTER XIV. THE STORM AND GOD
CHAPTER XV. THE NEW DAY
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Crazy Weather
By Charles L McNichols
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All in his good clothes, too. The only bright spot on these days was when the rig would encounter a rattlesnake. As his mother loathed snakes and there was a biblical admonition against them, it was permissible for him to use the shotgun that he was allowed to carry in the rig for defense purposes only.
Usually he fired suddenly, scaring the wits out of his passengers and the horses. After he had checked the runaways and after the screams in the back seat had been reduced to gasps he would explain he had to shoot the snake without warning because it was coming to attack the horses.
