Black Hills: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Paha Sapa, a Sioux warrior, first encounters General George Armstrong Custer seeing that Custer lays dying on the battlefield in Little Bighorn. He believes–as do the holy guys of his tribe–that the famous general’s ghost inserted him at that moment and will remain with him until Sapa convinces him to leave.

In BLACK HILLS, Dan Simmons weaves the tales of Paha Sapa and Custer collectively seamlessly, depicting a violent and tumultuous time in the annals of Native Us citizens and the United States Army. Haunted with the voice of the overall his people known as ‘Long Locks,’ Paha Sapa lives a long life, driven by a dramatic vision he encounters in the Dark Hillsides that are his tribe’s homeland. As an explosives worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, he may finally be gone his ghosts–on the day FDR involves South Dakota to dedicate the Jefferson encounter.