Dieser Autor fängt die raue Realität und die Romantik des amerikanischen Westens meisterhaft ein. Seine Erzählungen erwecken die Landschaft und ihre Charaktere mit bemerkenswerter Kraft zum Leben und befassen sich oft mit Themen wie Überleben, Ehre und dem Aufeinanderprallen der Kulturen. Mit einer unverwechselbaren Stimme und einem tiefen Verständnis für sein Setting bietet er den Lesern ein immersives literarisches Erlebnis.
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.
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.
