New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A realistic novel of 19th-century buffalo hunters by this award-winning writer, a story of the struggle for survival among whites "scrabbling to make a living from selling hides and the grim, violent struggle between those whites and the native Indian bands. Otto Dousmann is a Civil War veteran turned hunter, joined by his sister Jenny when their parents die. But things go badly for them; Jenny is raped, Otto crippled. They take refuge with a band of Cheyenne under the care of Two Shields, an Indian buffalo skinner." 271 pp plus a bibliographical note. ISBN: 0-374277591.