Zelestina Urza in Outer Space
Publisher: LSU Press
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For Zelestina Urza, a young Basque immigrant, northern Wyoming on a cold February day in 1902 seemed as distant and barren as the moon. She had left her impoverished family and had no idea what lay ahead of her. How would she make a
life out of what seemed like less than nothing? As she finds answers to this question, her life becomes interwoven with that of her close friend Yellow Bird Daughter- a Cheyenne Arapaho dispossessed after the trauma of Wounded Knee. Their
story, recounted later by an opinionated and sometimes argumentative narrator, is the stuff of legen and an antidote to the traditional macho recounting of manifest destiny.