Praise for the novels of Terry C. Johnston
CRY OF THE HAWK
“This novel has the epic sweep of the frontier built into it.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Will stain the reader with grease, blood, and smoke.”
—Kirkus Reviews
THE SON OF THE PLAINS TRILOGY
“Terry Johnston is the genuine article when it comes to storytelling, but you can also depend on his having done his historical homework. His Custer trilogy is proving this significant point, just as his Indian wars and mountain man books prove it. I admire his power and invention as a writer, but I admire his love and faith in history just as much.”
—Will Henry, author of From Where the Sun Now Stands
“[Johnston] has so immersed himself in the history of the Plains Indians and in Custer’s history that, were novels not his forte, he could very well write a book on Custer and his final battle to match that of … Evan Connell.”
—Dale L. Walker, Rocky Mountain News
CARRY THE WIND, BORDERLORDS, AND
ONE-EYED DREAM
“Johnston’s books are action-packed … a remarkably fine blend of arduous historical research and proficient use of language … lively, lusty, fascinating.”
—Gazette-Telegraph, Colorado Springs
“Rich and fascinating … There is a genuine flavor of the period and of the men who made it what it was.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Slick with survival-and-gore heroics and thick with Northwest-wilderness period detail (1820-40), this gutsy adventure-entertainment is also larded with just the right amounts of frontier sentiment.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Johnston offers memorable characters, a great deal of history and lore about the Indians and pioneers of the period, and a deep insight into human nature, Indian or white.”
—Booklist
BOOKS BY TERRY C. JOHNSTON
Cry of the Hawk
Winter Rain
Dream Catcher
Carry the Wind
Borderlords
One-Eyed Dream
Dance on the Wind
Buffalo Palace
Crack in the Sky
Ride the Moon Down
Death Rattle
Wind Walker
SONS OF THE PLAINS NOVELS
Long Winter Gone
Seize the Sky
Whisper of the Wolf
THE PLAINSMEN NOVELS
Sioux Dawn
Red Cloud’s Revenge
The Stalkers
Black Sun
Devil’s Backbone
Shadow Riders
Dying Thunder
Blood Song
Reap the Whirlwind
Trumpet on the Land
A Cold Day in Hell
Wolf Mountain Moon
Ashes of Heaven
Cries from the Earth
Lay the Mountains Low
for Jim Bourne
who helped point the way years ago,
with more gratitude than you
will ever know
How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary—but always whiskey! … Westward the Jug of Empire takes its way!
—Mark Twain
The Texas Rangers … had an off and on existence ever since 1823, when Stephen F. Austin formed a band of ten Rangers to protect the first American settlements from Indians…. From that time on—throughout all their ups and downs, disappearances and reappearances—the Rangers were irregulars. They were irregular as hell, in everything except getting the job done.
—Oliver Knight
The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next war.
—General William Tecumseh Sherman
Destiny is nothing more than the unforeseen coincidence of events, the emergence into action of hidden forces which, in a complex and disordered society … no contemporary can be expected to discern.
—Guglielmo Ferrero
CAST OF CHARACTERS
*Jonah Hook
*Hattie Hook
*Ezekiel Hook (Antelope)
*Prairie Night (Antelope’s Comanche wife)
*Gritta Hook
*Jeremiah Hook (Tall One)
*Shadrach Sweete
*Pipe Woman
*Toote Sweete / Shell Woman
*High-Backed Bull
Danites
*Colonel Jubilee Usher
*Heber Welch
*Frank Bolls
*Charlie Smythe
*Joseph Simes
*Oran Strickler
*George
*Orem Slade
*George Hines
*Harry Hampton
Cheyenne
Roman Nose
*Hair Rope
Little Hawk
Tall Bull
*Wolf Friend
*Plenty of Bull Meat
*Tall Sioux
*Bullet Proof
*Red Cherries
*Four Bulls Moon
Porcupine
*Wrinkled Wolf
Starving Elk
White Horse
*Bad Heart
*Yellow Nose
*White Man’s Ladder
*Feathered Bear
*Heavy Furred Wolf
Lakota
Pawnee Killer
* Bad Tongue
Kwahadi Comanche
Quanah Parker
*Wolf Walking Alone
*Snake Brother
*Coal Bear
*Bums Red
*Standing
*Rain Woman
*Bridge
*Big Mule
*Dives Backward
*Old Owl Man
*Tortoise Shell
*Four Spirits Woman
Shoshone / Snake