In the late nineteenth-century West, conflict between beleaguered Indians and white settlers and ranchers draws all into an apocalyptic clash--including a young advocate of Indian rights, a former army scout, a Sioux chief, and a young white man raised by the Cheyenne
John Byrne Cooke was an American author of five books, road manager to Janis Joplin from late 1967 until her untimely death in 1970, a musician, a photographer, and a documentary film maker. He was the son of Alistair Cooke, and the great-grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A wonderful beginning to a story full of life-like characters and beautiful prose. An unpredictable ending to this first book makes me even more excited to begin the next.