In his new novel, acclaimed
writer Dee Brown spins a mys-
terious and compelling yarn. The action
begins in the rainy dusk near a dock on the
Missouri River in 1866, when a journalist
Boards a steamer heading upriver. Sam
Morrison is looking for stories for the Saint
Louis Herald--and he finds one in the sub-
ect of Charles Rawley, Civil War hero and
ndian fighter. Was he a man of courage and
principle or was he a coward?
As this tale is told--in many versions by
is many witnesses--the details of the past
- merge, including the court-martial of an
nnocent man; a forced march across a bar-
~ en plain that ends in massacre; Charles
Rawley s moment of dishonor in the battle
with Indian warriors at Killdeer Mountain;
md Rawley s last act, the deed that redeems
him.
But very soon the narratives begin to
angle, until Morrison realizes that he s lis-
ening to the pieces of a story far more
complex and contradictory than any of the
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