"Gray challenges many time-honored beliefs about the battle . . . (and) brings in as much as possible the testimony of the Indian witnesses . . . which generations of historians have dismissed. . . . The contrasts in (this) book . . . reinstate the basic components of what still attracts the imagina ...
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The intertwining tales of an Iowa farmer and a ex-Army officer, who each strive for riches and fall in love in the turbulent and dangerous time of the California Gold Rush. Winner of the1996 Spur Award for Best Novel of the West.
A young man named Asquani, born after his Cherokee mother was raped by a Spaniard during the DeSoto expedition, sets out on a journey to the Spanish outpost, where he hopes his father's people will take him in. This book won the 1995 Spur Award for Best Western Novel.