Arikaree War Cry: A Novel of the Cheyenne War of 1868

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All Dain Talmage wanted was to make a go of homesteading on the Kansas prairie and win the heart and hand of auburn-haired Valina Kern over his rival, Addison Scurry, slick owner of the frontier towns general store. Then the husband of Dains sister was killed in a Cheyenne raid and she and her baby captured. Dain struck out in search of them, swearing revenge on two menRoman Nose, notorious leader of the Dog Soldiers, the Cheyennes fearsome raiding forceand Jed Wolfcry, the hostile half-breed who played a sinister role in the raid on Dains family.

Joining a makeshift band of volunteers composed of battle-scarred Civil War veterans and embittered settlers who had seen their families vanish in Cheyenne raids, Dain helps track Roman Nose and his Dog Soldiers to the Arikaree River near the Kansas-Nebraska border. Though outnumbered eight to one, the volunteers are determined to take on the Cheyenne warriorsno matter what the cost.

Fresh from viewing grisly evidence of the raiders savagery and facing the full reality of his personal tragedy, Dain plunges into the heart of a battle he never expects to survive.