 ME AND SUZIE WONG  BUFFALOed received the Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for Superior Cover Art |
BUFFALOed is the First Place Grand Prize Winner for fiction in the 2009 INDIE Book Awards. I am so honored to receive this award. It is a tribute to my grandmother and our Norwegian family heritage. Thank you, Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group. Advanced Praise for Fairlee Winfield’s BUFFALOed "This work has cinematic appeal. I wanted to read on and was never bored. Its premise is intriguing and sent me to Google to see how much was based on fact" —Barbara B. Scott, Author Woven into this gritty tale of a Norwegian immigrant’s struggle to fit in is the compelling question: Did Charlie Russell, the famed Cowboy Artist, really paint the Lewis & Clark mural that is permanently displayed in the Montana State House? When family problems force young Ovidia Odegard to leave Norway, she sails to America for a life never imagined. She becomes immediately drawn to, and enamored by, the Wild West. Determined to make her way there, Ovidia wills herself to Montana and into the home of Charlie Russell, considered one of the foremost artists of the American west. Fairlee Winfield’s BUFFALOed is a stirring and sometimes hilarious reminder that the early 20th Century American west was a place where life was hard and only the strong, tenacious, or downright crazy survived. Author's Biography Inspiration for BUFFALOed was sparked by the author's Norwegian grandmother's stories of working in Montana home of the famed Cowboy Artist, Charles M. Russell. Currently Fairlee Winfield is a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University and at Arizona State University. A former Fulbright lecturer in Peru, and an exchange professor in Japan, she resides in Arizona. |
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