Description

First Edition, second printing. Illustrated with cartographic endleaves showing the Plains states of America. 8vo, publisher's tan buckram, upper cover lettered in gilt within a arrow design in gilt and dark green, the spine lettered and decorated with the same design. 344 pp. A very good copy, quite fresh and clean and attractive.

Edizione: the first of henry will's popular novels based on historic events. general custer's last stand and final moments are the inspiration of this title. history books say that only the horse comanche escaped alive, will henry creates one other survivor, colonel john clayton, the fictional civil war officer who once saved custer's life. clayton leaves a journal describing his later career on the western frontier, as a civilian scout for the u.s. army. he is captured by crazy horse and taken into the oglala sioux tribe. for nine years he lives as an indian—the adopted son of crazy horse, an intimate of sitting bull, and the husband of a medicine woman. he rides with the indians against the white invaders, but by 1876 he has to make a choice about who he really is.