Rifles for Watie
Rifles for Watie is a rich and sweeping novel-rich in its panorama of history. Its details are so clear that the reader never doubts for a moment that he is there.
It is a story of a lesser-known part of the Civil War, the Western campaign, a part different in its issues and its problems, and fought with a different savagery. Inexorably it moves to a dramatic climax, evoking a brilliant picture of a war and the men of both sides who fought in it.
Author Harold Keith combines historical accuracy with lifelike characters to produce an gripping look into an often-overlooked theater of the Civil War.
- About the author: Harold Keith was a Newbery Medal-winning American writer. Keith was born and raised in Oklahoma, where he also lived and died. The state was his abiding passion and he used Oklahoma as the setting for most of his sixteen published books.
