Book excerpt: ‘Facing the Mountain’ Daniel James Brown Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown (Penguin Press)
“We made the sacrifices. It was a sense of “Hey, I earned this. It’s not that you owe me. It’s this that we have earned this.” Fred Shiosakine
Prologue One of the many pleasures of writing a book like this is meeting the extraordinary people who have lived the story you are telling. Usually, you meet them only virtually, through the letters or diaries or video recordings they have left behind. Occasionally, if you are lucky, you get to meet them in person.