The White Man’’s Brother

Muriel (Ava) Linder lives with her family in Elmira, Oregon. She spent many years studying Native American history, especially that related to the Cheyenne tribe, before writing ＂The White Man’s Brother.＂ After writing it and an unpublished sequel called ＂The Rainbow Chasers,＂ the manuscripts were laid aside while she concentrated on developing a sewing and alterations business. She finally brought both books out of the closet and worked on them some more. ＂I had written numerous magazine articles and newspaper items up until that time, but working with fiction was a whole new ballgame. I loved bringing my characters to life!＂ ＂White Man’s Brother＂ is the first of these two books. Look for ＂The Rainbow Chasers, a sequel to WMB, which will be published in late 2015. In her acknowledgements, Mrs. Linder writes: ＂If it were possible, I would thank George Bird Grinnell personally for the two volumes he wrote on the day-to-day happenings of a Cheyenne village. ＂Grinnell lived with the Cheyenne for several years and painstakingly recorded the period when they hunted the buffalo and roamed the prairie. This was before the buffalo hunters came. ＂My hero died in 1938 after a long career as a writer. He had a great love for Native American culture which he passed on to me.＂