Goodreads asked Dan Jorgensen:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Dan Jorgensen I was working as a reporter/feature writer for the Southern Black Hills newspaper "The Hot Springs Star" and writing a weekly piece about historical events and people. The more I did that the more it became apparent to me that this might be the base for a good novel, and then I discovered that a lot of the people I was writing about had all been in the area around the same time in the early 1890s. That sparked my interest in doing the book, set in 1894, and bringing them together for this tale "And The Wind Whispered." The title, by the way, comes from Lakota tribal lore that says the Great Spirit moved beneath the sacred Black Hills, came forth from Wind Cave, and the wind whispered as the Great Spirit created the Lakota people and their world.

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