Book One
The Coming Storm
The frontier does not welcome strangers. It tests them.
Henson Wiseman moves west in 1838, with little more his young bride, a horse, a wagon, a rifle, and a stubborn belief that a man can make something of himself on the open plains. In 1856 he stakes two Homestead Act claims. One for his growing family and one for his eldest son, Benjamin. - Little Crow's people are tired of the lies and diseases brought by the White settlers and traders. The stealing of two deer carcasses is the last straw. Explaining to the Elders of their village the four hunters inspire an Uprising. - When word reaches Wiseman, he has to make a decision. It isn't his fight. Not until recruiters come by the construction site and convince other to join the Army so they can help build a fort to protect the surrounding area. The men use insults and accusations of cowardice to prod him to join also.
