Author: Matt Braun
Publication Date: 27 January 2012
Publisher: St Martins
Based on a true story
For decades the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient Indian hunting grounds and the U.S. Army turned the tide of battle. Now the Civil War has begun, and the Army is pulling out of Fort Belknap—giving the Comanches a new chance for victory and revenge. Led by the remarkable warrior, Little Buffalo, the Comanche and Kiowa are united in a campaign to wipe out the settlers forever. But in their way stand two remarkable men...
Allan Johnson is a former plantation owner. Britt Johnson was once his family slave, now a freed man facing a new kind of hatred on the frontier. Together, with a rag-tag volunteer army, they’ll stand up for their hopes and dreams in a journey of courage and conscience that will lead to victory…or a battle to the death.
Three men and their women and children match courage against courage as they fight for what is theirs. This is the saga of a former Southern planter turned Texas cattleman, a former slave who comes West to prove himself the equal of any man, and a Comanche chief who battles to regain the land of his people. Ties in with the three-part, six-hour CBS-TV miniseries.
