Seize the Sky - (Son of the Plains) by Terry C Johnston (Paperback)

About the Book

Custer and the Seventh march from Fort Abraham Lincoln at the same time Sitting Bull has his fateful vision of "soldiers falling into camp," both tragic figures to collide on the Little Bighorn in this tale drawn from the battlefield's archeological evidence blended with the long-ignored recollections of the warriors who crushed Custer.

Book Synopsis

Custer confronts his destiny at Little Big Horn and his legend lives on through his Cheyenne son.

Never one to proceed cautiously when an impetuous move could win him glory, Custer marched his famed Seventh Calvary against the Sioux in June 1876. He was thirty-six, already a mythic hero to some, with the possibility of a presidential nomination looming in his future; while to others he was an arrogant and dangerous fool, misguided in his determination to subjugate the Plains tribes. What should have been his greatest triumph became an utterly devastating defeat that would ring through the ages and serve as a turning point in the Indian Wars.

About the Author

Terry C. Johnston is recognized as a master of the American historical novel. His grand adventures of the American West combine the grace and beauty of a natural storyteller with complete dedication to historical accuracy and authenticity. Johnston was born the first day of 1947 on the plains of Kansas, and lived all his life in the American West. His first novel, Carry the Wind, won the Medicine Pipe Bearer Award from the Western Writers of America, and his subsequent books have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the country. After writing more than 30 novels, he died in March 2001 in Millings, Montana.