Not all of Lafferty 's work was science fiction or fantasy ; his novel '' Okla Hannali '' ( 1972 ) , published by University of Oklahoma Press , tells the story of the Choctaw in Mississippi , and after the Trail of Tears , in Oklahoma , through an account of the larger-than-life character Hannali and his large family . This novel was thought of highly by the novelist Dee Brown , author of '' Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee '' ( 1970 ) , who on the back cover of the edition of published by the University of Oklahoma Press , writes " The history of the Choctaw Indians has been told before and is still being told , but it has never been told in the way Lafferty tells it ... Hannali is a buffalo bull of a man who should become one of the enduring characters in the literature of the American Indian . " He also wrote , " It is art applied to history so that the legend of the Choctaws , their great and small men , their splendid humor , and their tragedies are filled with life and breath . " Lafferty 's work is represented by Virginia Kidd Literary Agency , which holds a cache of his unpublished manuscripts . This includes over a dozen novels , such as '' In The Akrokeraunian Mountains '' and '' Iron Tongue of Midnight '' , as well as about eighty short stories and a handful of essays
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
R. A. Lafferty