HERE is a big, brawling story of the American frontier at the time when gray and blue armies were struggling for a nation.
It is a story of the men-and women-who were left at our farthest outposts to defend themselves against the assaults of rampaging Indians, and the treachery of unscrupulous whites.
Their lives-and deaths-were barely a footnote to history. But recaptured in this lusty, action-packed novel, they become a breed worth knowing, and hard to forget.