Terry C Johnston

After returning to his Missouri farm from a Union prison to find his wife and children abducted, ex-Confederate Jonah Hook journeys west to find his wife enslaved by a religious fanatic and his sons being raised by the Comanche.

Seamus Donegan is not under the command of Col. Nelson A. Miles, who must lead his war-weary troops up the Tongue River into butte country. There, amidst the snow-covered bluffs, awaits Crazy Horse with a thousand-strong force of Lakota braves. They are ready to engage Col. Miles and the Fifth U.S. Infantry, in the last battle Crazy Horse will ever fight against the white man's army.

Licking his wounds after the Rosebud debacle, Crook again retreats south to his supply base, from which he dispatches patrols north to learn what he can of the largest hostile village ever gathered on the Plains. From the Sibley Scout in July, to the Battle of Slim Buttes, and on through the rain-sodden horsemeat march, you relive the tragic aftermath of the Little Bighorn.

Book four of the author's series which recounts little known, but historically important battles between the Indians and the whites who intrude on their territories. It is 1869, and the Kansas Pacific Railway is pushing its way west. Hit-and-run raids by Cheyenne are slowing its progress. In midsummer, the 5th Cavalry mounts a brutal, surprise attack on the encamped Cheyenne. As a result, a new Cheyenne leader emerges. Called White Horse, he leads...

Confronted by the rapid influx of settlers into the Rocky Mountains, trapper and mountain man Titus Bass desperately struggles to carve out a new place for himself and his family on the changing frontier.

Seamus Donegan has much to be thankful for and has begun to enjoy life with his new family. For the first time in quite a spell, it seems as if he can finally settle down. But General Sheridan has other plans. Humiliated from the defeat at Little Big Horn, the U.S. Army has its eye on revenge. Gathering the best men at Fort Laramie, Sheridan has planned a winter campaign to bring in the fearless Sioux warrior Crazy Horse. Marching north through the...