Amazon.com description: Product Description: A Spur Award–winning Author These are the men and women who risked their lives for freedom, justice, and a dream. This is the story of America. Western Missouri. Army scout Jack Gregory returns from battle to a homestead in ruins. A wanted man with no place to go, he becomes a scout for General George Armstrong Custer in the Seventh Cavalry ― until Custer’s disastrous leadership ends in slaughter. Winning a small ranch in a card game, he hopes to settle down to a peaceful life. But with the Cheyenne nation rising up to defend their land, there can be no peace for a scout like Jack.