FeralChildren.com says A mythical tale of how the American West was won, featuring two children, one white and one black, who fall off the back of an overloaded wagon heading into Kansas in 1859 and are raised by coyotes

Product Description Philip Kimball is an authentic voice of the American west. With its mix of songs and laments, tall tales, history, and hearsay, Liar's Moon brings together the first-person stories of, among others, a young girl kidnapped by Indians in 1852, two toddlers who fell off a buckboard and were raised by coyotes, a pioneering black Mississippi sharecropper, and a young brave who believes he is invincible. Culminating in 1890 at Wounded Knee, Liar's Moon captures the quintessential American myth--the closing of the frontier--with uniquely American energy, diversity, and wit. Philip Caputo called Liar's Moon an epic poem. If it fails to seize you from the first page on, then I suggest you've been watching too much television . . . Full of raw vitality and hopes of people seeking to slip the bonds of the past, of history itself.

Ambitious . . . Explores the horizon where the West of myth and the West of reality merge. --The New York Times Book Review

The true American mosaic . . . audacious, ambitious. It's as though the word-drunk Cormac McCarthy were teamed with the politically correct Louise Erdrich. --Newsday

Amazon customer review © Kimball puts a new spin on folklore to serve up a quirky tale of the opening of the old West. The characters are an odd collection of common folk, each with a story that is more peculiar -- and enjoyable -- than the last. Throughout it all is a sense of resignation that an era is passing and a way of life is quickly fading away.

Amazon customer review © This is story telling at its best. Kimball weaves a captivating tale of the Old West, combining original stories and characters with legends. He weaves intricate scenarios then stretches them as tightly as an artist's canvas. Once readers start down the descriptive path of this novel, they'll become entangled until the last word.