When a girl from Preacher's past is murdered, Preacher knows the time has come to leave the high, wild country--for truth, justice, and a new reason to kill.

"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia...

"The extraordinary true story of how JW Dear, a young Virginian who fought with Mosby's Rangers in the Civil War, went West and befriended Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian chief on the Great Northern Plains. Set during the opening of the West, the Great Sioux War of 1876, and the forcing of the Sioux onto reservations, Red Cloud and the Indian Trader is a uniquely personal insight into how betrayal, corruption, and backroom deals propelled the...

Includes material on John Colter and George Drouillard, Edward Robinson, John Hoback and Jacob Reznor, Jedediah Smith, Etienne Provost, Ewing Young, Joe Walker, Bill Sublette, Warren Ferris, Tom Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, Joe Meek and Doc Newell, and Jim Bridger.

Follows the yearly cycle of the voyageur Edouard as he travels to Grand Portage, trading furs for goods that he uses to purchase more furs during the winter months from the native villages.