Will Hobbs Quotes
I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.
Hobbs, Will. "Story Behind the Story: Go Big or Go Home." Will Hobbs, willhobbsauthor.com.
He had done an analysis of American History textbooks and found that 9 pages about American Indians and their history before and after Europeans came to America. He and most other historians consider that to be inadequate.
Cody had fought a one-against-one battle against Chief Yellow Hair whom he killed and scalped. He then rode back to his troops shouting the quotation. Later, he displayed the scalp publicly.
Will Hobbs is the author of twenty novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. Hobbs credits his sense of audience to his fourteen years of teaching reading and English in southwest Colorado. When he turned to writing, he set his stories mostly in wild places he knew from firsthand experience. Hobbs has said he wants to “take young people into the outdoors and engage their sense of wonder.” Bearstone, his second novel, gained national attention when it took the place of Where the Red Fern Grows as the unabridged novel in Prentice-Hall’s 7th grade literature anthology. Downriver and Far North were selected by the American Library Association for its list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the 20th century. As of 2020, all twenty-two of Hobbs’ books are in print, and all the novels are available in unabridged audio editions.
