Questo autore cattura magistralmente la cruda realtà e il romanticismo del West americano. Le sue narrazioni danno vita al paesaggio e ai suoi personaggi con notevole potenza, esplorando spesso temi di sopravvivenza, onore e scontro di culture. Con una voce distintiva e una profonda comprensione del suo ambiente, offre ai lettori un'esperienza letteraria immersiva.
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.
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.
