The Powder River

RIVERS WEST
Native Americans, hunters and trappers, pioneer families--all who braved the American West drew their very lives and fortunes from the great rivers. From the earliest days of the untamed frontier to the dawn of the twentieth century, here, in all their violence and beauty, are the Rivers West.

POWDER RIVER
The northern Cheyenne still called the lush Powder River country their sacred home. But now, far to the south in harsh Indian Territory, the bitter remnants of that once-mighty nation were growing feeble and dying. To survive, they must return to their ancestral home across 1500 miles, eluding pursuit by thou-sands of well-armed soldiers. Joining their outnumbered band were Adam Smith Maclean, a half-breed torn between two opposing ways of life, and his beautiful wife Elaine, a strong-willed New Englander deter-mined to stand by Adam and his desperate, daring people on their trek through the hostile heart of the white man's West--toward the welcoming banks of the Powder River.