six gun snow white by catherynne m valente

He disliked to travel in company, being a secretive man by nature. H traveled to the Montana Territory on a horse so new and fine, her tail squeaked. That is a wholly peculiar way of thinking, but it is very common.įlush and jangle with silver and possessed of a powerful tooth for both spending and procuring more of whatever glittered under the ground, Mr. Most everyone grants he was a kingly fellow, else the blue would not have showed itself to him. H is well known: He had one wife and one son and that was the beginning and the end of his capacity for love, excepting of course the copper lode in Peru, gold prospects in the Dakota Territories, the Idaho opal mine, and other pursuits I cannot tell you about as they are beyond my ken. It don’t trouble me none if any soul calls me a liar. H married a Crow woman and had a baby with her round about the time he struck his fortune in the good blue, which is how folk used to designate Nevada silver. I accept with equanimity that you will not credit me when I tell you Mr. Six-Gun Snow White THE CREATION OF SNOW WHITE Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, this is an utterly enchanting story…at once familiar and entirely new. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child.

Although her mother’s life ended as hers began, so begins a remarkable tale: equal parts heartbreak and strength. Insert into this scene a plain-spoken, appealing narrator who relates the history of our heroine’s parents-a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him. Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as the seven dwarves. A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West.įorget the dark, enchanted forest.

Six gun snow white by catherynne m valente