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The U.S. Army's goal: wipe out the remnants of scattered, starving people on the frontier's Northern Plain. But before Colonel Nelson A. Miles, the Bear Coat, launched his Spring campaign into the heart of Indian country, the commander took one last stab at negotiations and called on a Cheyenne woman and the famous half-breed pony scout named Johnny Bruguier. Together, they traveled to the valley of the upper Rosebud River to urge the Sioux to surrender. But a personal grudge exploded in the show more ranks of the U.S. Army. Now, as a man and a woman risk their lives for peace, the culmination of the great Sioux War is set in motion, as the Bear Coat takes on the last of the fierce Lakota warriors. show lessTags
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My favorite book of this series. Very moving. This book is towards the end of the series that the author was unable to complete because of his sudden and untimely death. It tells the story of how the Sioux and Cheynne were not defeated by the soldiers as much as they were by nature, starvation, and the constant pursute by the soldiers. Then there false hope for a better life on the reservations was the final defeat that still scares these wonderful people today.
While this is a historic novel, the Author's "Afterword" contains valuable references he researched to write this story.
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Terry C. Johnson was born in 1947 on the plains of Kansas and has lived a varied life as a roustabout, history teacher, printer, paramedic, dog catcher, and car salesman, all the while immersing himself in this history of the early West. His first novel, CARRY THE WIND, won the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award from the Western Writer's of America, and show more his subsequent books, among them CRY OF THE HAWK, WINTER RAIN, and THE SON OF THE PLAINS TRILOGY, have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the country. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Ashes of Heaven
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