The Civil War was over, and a great westward march began. Settlers and soldiers poured out of the East, cutting deep into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. For Red Cloud and his warriors, there would be no choice but to fight for their ancestral rights.
Tired of the white man's false promises and broken treaties, Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe break from their reservation and cross the Red River in an attempt to reclaim their ancestors' land.
Seamus Donegan and his men follow an ever more scarce herd into the Kiowa and Comanche's sacred hunting ground. Now Donegan and a handful of men must hold off any army of braves in one of the bloodiest battles of the Plains.
“Terry Johnston is an authentic American treasure.”—Loren D. Estleman, author of Edsel It was a day that shocked a nation. June 25, 1876. The day General George Armstrong Custer fell at Little Big Horn. Now the U.S. Army is on the march. Vowing revenge, its commanders have declared total war on the Cheyenne and Sioux. Every able-bodied man must answer the call of the cavalry trumpet . . . men such as frontiersman Buffalo Bill...
After a terrible summer of blood and fire, scout Seamus Donegan finally has reason to rejoice: his wife, Samantha, has given birth to his first son. But the time to celebrate new life is short . . . for the old business of death continues. Phil Sheridan has gathered his officers at Fort Laramie for a war council to prepare the winter campaign. His objective: capture Crazy Horse, the elusive Sioux warrior chief whose exploits have put the U.S. cavalry...
In the bitter winter of 1877, Crazy Horse and his brave Lakota warriors wait in the high canyons for their final chance to fight for their tribe's destiny.
