Cet auteur capture magistralement la réalité sauvage et la romance de l'Ouest américain. Ses récits donnent vie au paysage et à ses personnages avec une puissance remarquable, explorant souvent des thèmes de survie, d'honneur et de choc des cultures. Avec une voix distinctive et une profonde compréhension de son cadre, il offre aux lecteurs une expérience littéraire immersive.
Young Button Starbuck and his brothers had a mighty shock when their father had been killed in his own home, but Button vowed to wreak his revenge -- to trace Buchannan and kill him. Button was a boy who had never aimed a gun in anger nor been more than a day's ride from his home in his life. That was about to change.
On the night of September 2, 1878, two men died. One was Colonel James McAllister, the commander of Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska. The other was Iron Mountain, chief of the Cheyenne living in exile on the Darlington Reservation near Fort Reno in Oklahoma Territory.
Yellow stone Kelly is an Indian fighter and scout like no other. The devil-may-care Irishman can pick off hostiles and quote the classics with equal ease and accuracy. Even the mighty Sioux fear him--or most of them fear him. Sitting Bull's main war chief, the dreaded Gall, fears no man, and Kelly has something of his that the warrior would gladly kill to get back--his woman.
Der Indianerstamm der Mandanen leidet an Hunger und Kälte. Kleiner Rabe (12) macht sich heimlich auf den Weg nach Norden, um die berittene kanadische Indianerpolizei um Hilfe zu bitten.
