William Bennet Sterling and his best friend Jacob Brown enlist in the famed seventh cavalry and find themselves fighting for their lives in and around the area of the Little Bighorn Valley. This book covers Custer's operation from the point of leaving Fort Abraham Lincoln all the way to the historic massacre and 36 hour siege on Reno Hill. Everything is factual right down to the wounds received and the point in the battle they received them. Only Jake and Will are fictional.

William Benet Sterling and his best friend Jacob (Jake) Brown, two Kansas farm boys, realize their dream of riding with the famed seventh cavalry joining the unit at Fort Abraham Lincoln. The two teenagers gallop headlong into battle with Major Reno and A company as they mount a breath-taking charge against the Sioux and Cheyenne village along the river. They live the terror of being forced back into a small grove of cottonwood trees helplessly watching wounded friends being butchered and ...

This work has all the gripping excitement of the American west in postbellum America and the operations of the seventh Cavalry in and around the Little Bighorn valley. Heart stopping cavalry charges, desperate solders surrounded and cut off from the rest of the command, forced to fight their way out, the Indigenous struggle to freely live a life they had lived for thousands of years, and the gut-wrenching sadness the futility of war producesExcept for Will and Jake, all the charact...