Holly Porter knows adversity: She has nursed Confederate wounded in the Civil War, raised her young son, Justin, maintained the Tennessee family farm while her husband, Isaac, was fighting in the War, and cared for him when he returned home from the battlefields wounded, weakened, and haunted. But the greatest test of Holly's endurance lies in wait in the wilds of the Montana Territory. After Isaac makes a gold strike in Montana, Holly and Justin make their way west to the gold country to join him. But in an Indian attack on the Bozeman Road near Fort Phil Kearny, she and the boy are taken captive by Bad Face, a renegade Sioux warrior, and separated. Holly is rescued from Bad Face by Old Calf Woman, a venerable Blackfoot medicine woman, and Justin is taken to the camp of Sioux chief Red Cloud, who treats the white boy as a son. While Holly, who becomes known as Wolf Woman for the wolf-skin jacket she wears, learns Indian ways from Old Calf Woman and strengthens her resolve to find her lost son and reunite with her husband, army officer Lane Hodges has the difficult assignment of searching for the captives while trying to make a peace treaty with Red Cloud.
- ISBN10 0812551443
- ISBN13 9780812551440
- Publish Date 15 April 1999 (first published 15 October 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English