I have retained a large part of this story and sense of this book, so it has lodged in my heart, not my memory.Ĭircus, frontier settlers, army, trappers, natives - which word doesn't belong? It's natives, because in this historically accurate world, they were Indians. I easily read thousands of pages, and remember some small percentage of the stories in those pages. I have now traveled through the area where this book takes place, and it is as awesome (literal sense of awe) as the book describes. I reserve five stars for those books that change my life in some way, small or large. Mix it with good writing, some wonderful fictitious characters, and you make for my favorite kind of book. Surprise to my young self: History has become one of my favorite subjects as an old person. I got challenged on this of course I forgot about it, and ya, I finally popped for a new keyboard ) better review when my keyboard works better. There is still lots in the book to build from! I would love to have seen John Byrne Cook take this book into a triology writing. Even today one can walk these regions and 'feel' the history steeped in the canyon rocks and upon these old trails the Indians fought so hard to keep as the lands they had always known as home of which the white man was bound and determined to take away by any means. This was also a part of the historical region that evaded law officers of the Old West for so many years to break through known as the 'Outlaw Trails' as it followed the old 'Indian Trails' and was highly regarded and protected by both. The artist of the book cover has so perfectly put the boook into the text of the era before highways in the location of what is known now-a-days as 'Tensleep Canyon' approaching from the western edge of the Big Horn Mountains just above the region known in the Indian history as "Ten-Sleeps" (the number of 'sleeps' it took to get from one main camp to the other through 'Big Trails' country and of which now sets the present day town of Tensleep from which it got its name. the author may not even be aware of just how close he has come to reality on the ground of certain valleys, mountain peaks, streams and the history of the region. Although set in a fictional point of place within my beloved Big Horn Mtns. Growing up in Wyoming I traveled not only the story of this author's writing but, the many trails described.
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