Read the West Book Club: Drawing Fire: A Pawnee, Artist, and Thunderbird in World War II
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In 1940, Brummett Echohawk, an eighteen-year-old Pawnee boy, joined the Oklahoma National Guard. Within three years his unit, a tough collection of depression era cowboys, farmers, and more than a thousand Native Americans, would land in Europe-there to distinguish themselves, as in the words of General George Patton, "one of the best, if not the best division, in the history of American arms." Woven with Pawnee legend and language and quickened with wry Native wit, Drawing Fire, by Brummett Echohawk with Mark R. Ellenbarger, conveys in a singular way what it was like to go to war alongside a band of Indian brothers. It stands as a tribute to those Echohawk fought with and those he lost, a sharply observed and deeply felt picture of men at arms-capturing for all time the enduring spirit and steadfast strength of the Native American warrior.
Read the West Book Club meets in January, February and March; attend one or all three. Books available for purchase in The Museum Store (15% discount for Museum members).
Refreshments provided.
$9, $6 for Museum Members.
Register by March 5.