On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry -- or Asku, as Alma knew him -- was the most promising student at the "savage-taming" boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children...

One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted the United States' intrusions into Lakota prairie land for years, refused to sign treaties, and called for a gathering of tribes at Little Big Horn. He epitomized resistance. Sitting Bull's...

"The extraordinary true story of how JW Dear, a young Virginian who fought with Mosby's Rangers in the Civil War, went West and befriended Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian chief on the Great Northern Plains. Set during the opening of the West, the Great Sioux War of 1876, and the forcing of the Sioux onto reservations, Red Cloud and the Indian Trader is a uniquely personal insight into how betrayal, corruption, and backroom deals propelled the...