Tiger Mountain: A Novel

A multi-generational historical saga set in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Indian Territory — on the very ground Okey calls home.

It begins in the spring of 1832, when Nancy Harjo has the best corn in the town and no idea what is coming. Over seventy-five years and four generations, her fictional family endures the winter of Removal, the divisions of the Civil War, the coming of the railroad, the land runs and allotment years, and finally Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Through it all they hold to one thing: the mountain, and each other.

Written in plain American prose with real history underneath — the National Council at Okmulgee, the Honey Springs campaign, the Dawes Commission, the Curtis Act, the Sequoyah convention — and warm, big-hearted storytelling on top. Real hardship, decency that endures, and a happy ending you can hand to anyone.