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Lieutenant Thaddeus Coyle is court-martialed in 1876 for refusing to characterize a politically connected soldier's incompetence as heroic. Adding to his misery is the abandonment by his wife, Emma, who has decided frontier life is too difficult. Forced to start over, Coyle ends up working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and after his promotion to Wounded Knee in the Dakota Territory, he encounters the ghost-dance phenomenon that inspires Indian warriors to believe they are impervious to bullets. Champlin re-creates the often painful, sometimes heartbreaking life of western settlers in the late nineteenth century. Although this novel tends to meander at times and lacks a strong narrative pull, the characters are memorable and the historical detail compelling. Not Champlin's best work, but genre fans will find plenty to engage them.
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