TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halleran,E.E.
TI  - The Hostile hills
SN  - 9781638081548
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Thorndike, Maine
PB  - Center Point Large Print
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Cavalry
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dakota Indians
KW  - Gold mines and mining
KW  - Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Western fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published in the U. S. by Ballantine Books
N2  - "The U. S. government was pledged by treaty to keep white emigrants out of Sioux lands. At the same time, it wanted its citizens to mine the Black Hills gold and get it into circulation. So the U. S. Army sourly went about the task of protecting its former enemies from white "intruders" - and wondered when things would start making sense again. Civilian scout Scott Craig had his own troubles. Army officers didn't trust him because he'd formerly worked for the Indian Agency. Indians didn't like anyone connected with the Pony Soldiers. Gold seekers resented everyone who tried to keep them out of the Black Hills. Even when Craig rescued a party of whites from the lethal attentions of Chief Thunder's hostile band, he got small thanks for it. Especially from Thunder, whose etiquette called for funeral sacrifices to appease the restless spirits of his fallen followers"--
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