| Counting Coup: A True Story Of Basketball And Honor On The Little Big Horn |  | Author: Larry Colton
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Category: Book
Buy New: $37.25
Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 3396818
Media: School & Library Binding
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0613913973
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323620820978638
EAN: 9780613913973
ASIN: 0613913973
Publication Date: October 2001
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Counting Coup is the story of the girls basketball team of Hardin High School in Montana. Larry Colton shows readers the hardscrabble existence of a rural small town beset by racism, alcoholism, and domestic violence, and in so doing produces a touching, heartfelt, and beautifully written true story that will leave readers cheering for the girls they have come to know.
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 Look up "hubris" in the dictionary October 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
And you'll find a picture of Larry Colton. I'd think 15 months would be long enough to find out Montantans can READ. At the very least he could have changed the names of minors before discussing their intimate lives.
 basketball story about a basketball player July 12, 2007
It is written by a male.....lots of the individual basketball player's feelings were not there.....I would of liked to hear about the feelings of the Crow people.....the facts however were very interesting.
 Brave young women February 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Raw telling of a tough story. Captivating, heartwarming, heart stopping; leaves the reader in awe of the young women portrayed in the book; their struggles and triumphs gritty and real. It's a page turner.
Suzanne March 10, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The minute I picked up this book I could not put it down. Basketball is a large part of the Indian school systems and culture. This tells of the huge obsticles that Indians have to overcome to succeed and survive. I read this book at least once a year and am overwhelmed each time by the adversity that the Indian culture has to deal with. They are children with dreams but often do not have the environment and support they need to succeed and leave the reservation.
Season on the brink: Compelling, yet frustrating true story January 16, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Writer/journalist Larry Colton went to the Crow Indian reservation in southern Montana to write a magazine story on high-school basketball and discovered something else altogether: the life-and-death struggle of a native American culture struggling to survive in a world of poverty, alcolholism, racism and shattered family values.
The story is familiar to anyone who has spent time on the reservation or peeked behind the curtain of today's native Indian society beyond that presented by Hollywood or weekend tourist pow-wows.
Colton's first-person account revolves around a 17-year-old girl basketball player who stars on the court, but off it skips school, smokes pot and has unprotected sex with a 20-something loser who couldn't care less about her -- or anything else, for that matter.
Sharon LaForge is a reluctant anti-hero, who takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride split between periods of pulling for her to succeed and hating her for wasting every opportunity that miraculously manages to come her way.
Every time the reader wants to give up, turn their back and walk away from Sharon as a lost cause, she does something to pull them back on her side -- all of this transpiring, ironically enough, within the shadows of the monument marking Custer's Last Stand at the Little Big Horn.
This book won the Frankfurt eBook Award for Best Nonfiction Book and the Alex Award in 2001 and earned praise from the New York Times Book Review, Library Journal, Parade magazine, and Keith Olbermann, among others.
You can't go wrong here. Strongly recommended.
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