The northern Cheyenne still called the lush Powder River country their sacred home. But now, far to the south in harsh Indian Territory, the bitter remnants of that once mighty nation were growing feeble and dying. To survive, they must return to their ancestral home across 1500 miles, eluding pursuit by thousands of well-armed soldiers. Joining their outnumbered band were Adam Smith Maclean, a half-breed torn between two opposing ways of life, and his wife Elaine, a strong-willed New Englander determined to stand by Adam and his desperate, daring people on their trek through the hostile heart of the white man’s West to the Powder River...
