TRAVELS WITH CHEYENNE

About the Book

The author takes a two-week Harley road-trip through the American southwest: “The golden flow of the beauty pours into my eyes singeing its way through my brain’s synopses to my primal being!" There are digressions to old memories: “Sr. had gotten it [bullet-holed bass-fiddle] from a family whose father didn’t need it any more. The father had been starting the third verse of ‘Los Caminos de la Vida’ when the bullet had carved its path through wood and meat and bone thus ending his own personal camino. Apparently papá had been playing other things as well….” And dreams: “Nor do I blink when black-eyed Yazhi glides by on a painted buckskin war-pony leading an Apache raiding party of twelve young dusky maidens—pungent sweat-vapor and stained deerskin frocks on wet glistening lithe young brown strong bodies—in pursuit of Custer. They hope to steal a horse or a yellow-haired scalp before the Sioux and Cheyenne can get them first. Damn, it would be heady stuff, after the battle, to dive between buffalo skins in an Apache teepee with one of her young musky Jicarilla sisters reeking of fresh blood and satiated blood lust!”

About the Author

Freeman Freitag is Professor Emeritus of Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, California. He has traveled the world extensively and has spent time in Spain and Mexico and other Hispanic countries. When not traveling, he splits his time between his home in Boulder City, NV, and Key West, FL.