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The fourth book in Giambastiani's weird and almost wonderful
alternate-history series opens with the dinosaur-riding Plains
Indians forming an alliance of Crows and Cheyennes. This offers
them the hope of successfully resisting white encroachments, although
the U.S. vice president is ruthlessly pushing the frontier forward
and making life miserable for European immigrants. Meanwhile,
young George Custer Jr., now the Cheyenne warrior One Who Flies,
is becoming a leader of the resistance. Without knowing the details,
he is also effectively an ally of his father, President Custer,
who seems to aspire to be known as something other than a simple-minded
thug and Indian killer. Giambastiani's knowledge of the Plains
Indians continues to carry the story more than any other aspect
of the book, so well that many readers will rush through this
volume and be overjoyed to learn that a sequel is inevitable.
Kudos to this unlikely but undeniably successful alternate history.
—Roland Green
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