As a boy, Virgil Wounded Horse was small and weak, a target for bullies on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Not anymore. A grown man, he works for hire on the reservation as an enforcer ...

South Dakota’s Rosebud Indian Reservation provides an evocative background for this compelling debut about Virgil Wounded Horse, who metes out vigilante justice as an enforcer, taking up the ...

Just one scene takes place at the monument, but it captures the novel’s tone and the complicated identity of Weiden’s flawed hero, Virgil Wounded Horse. Virgil observes tourists in the Black ...

Virgil Wounded Horse straddles two worlds. The vigilante-style hired muscle is half white and half Lakota, and he stopped believing in Native rituals and ceremonies when they failed to save his ...

As a boy, Virgil Wounded Horse was small and weak, a target for bullies on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Not anymore. A grown man, he works for hire on the reservation as an enforcer ...