When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from Magnus Yarborough, it became clear that the teenager was a better judge of horses than the rich landowner was of humans. Years later, Carson, now a skilled and respected horse...
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When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from Magnus Yarborough, it became clear that the teenager was a better judge of horses than the rich landowner was of humans. Years later, Carson, now a skilled and respected horse trainer, grudgingly agrees to train Magnus's horses and teach his wife to ride. But as Carson becomes disaffected with the power-hungry Magnus, he also grows more and more attracted to the rancher's wife, and their relationship sets off a violent chain of events that unsettles their quiet reservation border town in South Dakota. Thrown into the drama are Earl Walks Alone, an Indian trying to study his way out of the reservation and into college, and Willi, a German exchange student confronting his family's troubled history. In this unforgettable story of horses, love, and life, Carson and the entire ensemble of characters learn, in very different ways, about the strong bonds that connect people to each other and to the land on which they live Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Praise forThe WORK of WOLVES -- Half Title -- Also by Kent Meyers -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Prologue -- Part One BEHIND LOSTMAN'S LAKE -- The Careful Indian -- A Fall -- Trespassing -- The Rememberer -- The Old House -- An Agreement -- Equilibriums -- Horses and Men -- Hers -- Part Two The PHILOSOPHY of Broke -- Angle of Spin -- Part Three ROBBING and STEALING -- Mining Blame -- The Lights of Koblenz -- The Silent Indian -- Substitutes for Speech -- Well of Life -- Stacking Hay -- Conversion -- Manifold -- How to Seduce White Girls -- Goat Man Forms -- Part Four GOAT MAN -- Sightings -- Trying to Go Blind -- Beadwork -- Gradations of Intimacy -- Ruination -- Dogs and Spirits -- Nine Hundred an Acre -- A Thing Unsaid -- A Thing Decided -- Another Option -- Abraham and Isaac -- The Badlands -- The Work of Wolves -- Fire and Ice -- The Invisible Cop -- Another Fire -- Wild, Freed -- A Moment of What Remains -- Some Set of Vectors -- Wind -- Back Matter -- Acknowledgments
