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Five years after the momentous battle on the Little Big Horn, Charles Wolfe Collins, erstwhile Pinkerton operative, has been working as a payroll guard and manhunter, confronting violent criminals throughout the towns and countryside of Montana Territory. Unexpectedly hired as an agent of General Alfred Terry, Commander of the Department of Dakota, Collins and his guide embark upon a journey across the northern prairies and up into the North-West Territories of Canada, seeking a defiant Lakota chief. Mired in racial hostilities, military aggression and famine that will culminate in tragic loss and deplorable injustice, Collins must navigate a changing landscape, fraught with white settlers and soldiers who no longer tolerate any Indian not confined to a reservation.
Reviews
“With her sharp pen and talent for being able to transport us in time, J. Hoolihan Clayton takes readers on an absorbing trip through a sometimes blood-soaked American West. Her descriptions will win readers over again and again!”
Dr. Bruce E. Johansen
Research Professor Emeritus, Communication, University of Nebraska
“J. Hoolihan Clayton’s scrupulous attention to fact and detail places the reader in the role of perfect omniscient observer. Her painstaking research propels the reader through the landscape and numerous ethnicities inhabiting Montana Territory and beyond the Medicine Line in 1881.”
Jeffrey M Sanders, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Native American Studies, Montana State University
“J. Hoolihan Clayton writes knowledgeably about the racial situation throughout the late 19th century American West. Regardless of who was involved, regardless of race, all were caught in circumstances they could not escape, even soldiers who were forced to follow orders. The situation is not much different from today. We are still at each other’s throats. Hoolihan’s exacting research and writing make that continuity quite evident.”
Dr. Richard Littlebear
Native language activist and writer