{"product_id":"empty-ground-william-mann-9798995804727","title":"Empty Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1849, a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant named Declan Shea stands at the Powder River and watches sixty million buffalo come over a rise. By 1883, he rides the same country and cannot find eleven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween those two moments lies a life. Declan learns his trade on the northern plains-the Sharps rifle, the skinning knife, the arithmetic of a hide taken clean. He takes a Cheyenne name he did not choose: \u003cem\u003eHeávohe\u003c\/em\u003e. He works beside a ruined man named Bill until the day Bill stops working. He crosses paths with a Crow woman named Ashkáale in a willow draw and keeps crossing paths with her for twenty-five years without ever finding the four words that might have mattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in the spare, unsparing prose of American literary realism, \u003cem\u003eEmpty Ground\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a man who understood exactly what he was doing on a continent that had decided to let him do it-and of the people who watched it happen from the ground they were losing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor readers of Paulette Jiles, James Welch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Kent Haruf.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798995804727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sassy Belle Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d","brand":"William Mann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852904345855,"sku":"9798995804727","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empty-ground-william-mann-9798995804727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}