Gunsmoke Westerns S.
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Here is the powerful story of the bitter war in the Northwest Territory and the one Nez Perce peace chief, Timothy, who tested his faith against the burning Indian fury. Back to the time of Lewis and Clark, Timothy's people had honored the white man's army against the fighting tribes. The first U.S. Dragoons - 156 foolhardy officers and fearful men - were going to show the flag to mighty Kamiakin, the war chief of the bloody Palouse Rebellion. Kamiakin hated Americans, and waited for them with a thousand hand-picked warriors.
When Crazy Horse, strange man of the Oglala Bad Face Sioux, lay dying - bayoneted in the back by white men - he placed a final Indian trust with the aged medicine priest, Crowfoot: 'Go and take back our Oglala horses from that white man who stole them from us...take the horses to meet our red brother Joseph and his Nez Perces as we promised them, to aid them in their hard fighting toward freedom in the Land of the Grandmother.' Crowfoot, then over seventy years of age, and his sixteen-year-old granddaughter Twilight, and an ancient pack mule named Red Weasel set out on an incredible journey...