![]() To Indians and whites alike, Hardeman and Johnny Smoker bring a warning: the government has ordered all the Lakota to remove themselves to the Dakota reservations or they will be considered hostile. Their coming brings change as well to the ranch owned by Lisa Putnam, a young woman whose father was Sun Horse's friend, and to her uncle, Bat Putnam, a legendary mountain man who has lived for thirty years with the Lakota. The coming of these two brings change to the lives of the Sun Band, the people led by the peace man Sun Horse, whose winter camp lies in the foothills of the Big Horn mountains where the headwaters of the Powder River rise, and all the creeks that feed it. Grown to manhood among the whites, he is returning now to the people who raised him, to seek the meaning of a spirit dream he had long ago and to choose between the worlds. The younger one is called Johnny Smoker by the white men, but the Lakota and their allies, the Cheyenne, knew him by other names when he was a boy living among them. The older rider is Chris Hardeman, a former army scout haunted by his part in a massacre, determined to prevent a new Indian war. ![]() In the Snowblind Moon, two men ride into the Powder River country, the last hunting ground of the Lakota Sioux. ![]()
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