Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture among the Cheyenne and other tribes, the discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the bitter conflict that ensued, culminating in the massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian wars of the 1860s. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. Laid in is a brief typed, signed letter from West to Owens. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 422 pp. ISBN: 0-7006-08915.