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From: Kliatt | Date: May 1, 2002| Author: Hoy, Sherry S. | Copyright information

(sequel to The Year The Cloud Fell). Penguin Putnam, Roc. 356p. c2002. 0-451-45870-2. $6.99. JSA

The year is 1886; most of the middle U.S. is unsettled frontier inhabited by the Indians of the Cheyenne Alliance. President George Custer is stepping up the undeclared war against the Indians, building a bridge across the Missouri (Big Greasy) River with strategically placed forts to protect future land rush white settlers. In the prequel volume, The Year the Cloud Fell, Geo...

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