The Tethered Scalp

In 1860, Aaron Rockford is murdered his family must move west joining his Indian wife's, Crow Bear Clan. It is there, fourteen year old, Jake Beckett becomes a legend the Crow and Sioux never forget when Jake takes on the most powerful Sioux warrior in the Lakota nation. Crow warriors tell their stories next to a small fire on cold winter nights. One often spoke of is Jake Beckett, a fourteen year old boy known to the Indian nations as Gray Horse, a warrior. Dark Eye Flower said...
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In 1860, Aaron Rockford is murdered his family must move west joining his Indian wife's, Crow Bear Clan. It is there, fourteen year old, Jake Beckett becomes a legend the Crow and Sioux never forget when Jake takes on the most powerful Sioux warrior in the Lakota nation. Crow warriors tell their stories next to a small fire on cold winter nights. One often spoke of is Jake Beckett, a fourteen year old boy known to the Indian nations as Gray Horse, a warrior. Dark Eye Flower said it best: "Gray Horse , you are a warrior, a member of the Bear Clan, a boy who returned Brown Deer's spirit horse, counted coup on his grandfather's killers, saved the life of Black Tail, powerful Chief of the Bear Clan, and wounded, maybe killed the powerful Sioux, Iron Hand. Deeds, not age make you a warrior, you have Batsira'pe you are Gray Horse." A young reporter covering the 1917 changing of the guard from military to civilian authority at Yellowstone National Park, witnesses the last days of Gray Horse. He finds who really killed Iron Hand while fighting off local thieves.