Don Worcester is the recipient of the Levi Strauss Saddleman Award for his lifelong contributions to the literature of the American Frontier and a two-time Spur Award winner. He was a history professor at Texas Christian University and has formerly been president of Western Writers of America. He lived in Texas and Arizona.

The gripping tale of a young Sioux Indian after the crushing defeat of his people at Little Big Horn. Forced to get an education in the alien world of the whites he is faced with a dilemma when he returns to the plains: should he pursue the path of his ancestors, though his fellow Sioux consider him too white, or follow the road of the whites.