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Jul 11, 2022sherrykay rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I really liked the book...until the ending. I didnt like the way it ended.
Mar 08, 2020maipenrai rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Very readable novel about a young woman who follows her passion for archaeology rather than the expected role of a wife and mother. A dam project is planned on Native American land and she is hired ostensibly to find if there are ancient…
Oct 22, 2017StephenFoster rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A brilliant novel, set in the American west but not a genre "western." Instead, it's about a young archeologist accepting her first professional job in America's west (l950s). She tries to protect ancient canyon art showing "painted…
Aug 07, 2015EmilyEm rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
We're transported to 1950s Montana when Catherine Lemay is hired to do an archeological survey of a canyon set to be flooded for a power project. While there is much to commend in Brooks’s Painted Horses, lush writing, characters with…
Jun 04, 2015posie12 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Good story.
Mar 04, 2015DPLheather rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A good Western without stereotyping. Combines archaeology, WWII, and Montana, plus a beautiful and believable love story.
Sep 17, 2014
In the 1950s, archeologist Catherine Lemay heads to Montana as a member of the River Basin Survey, tasked with searching for evidence of indigenous human habitation in a canyon soon to be inundated by the flood waters generated by a…
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Aug 06, 2014
a very intriguing book about the old ways and new ways clashing over the building of a dam with artifacts. the characters are vivid and the plot is exciting. a great book.