TRAIL OF NO RETURN

Author: Linda Dockery ISBN: 0975430718 6/2004 HISTORICAL Publisher: AVANT GARDE PUBLISHERS
Time Period: 1875 Montana

Factual accounts and dialogue fill this saga with western history. Imaginative characters and action heighten the adventure, intrique and danger leading toward an ending unlike anything you have ever read. This compelling western will have you saddling up for a ride through time to let you become part of the greatest battle the West ever knew. Two unlikely allies are compelled to join forces as the Cavalry and Dakota Sioux are drawn into one of the biggest battles in western history.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

The spring of 1876 was building toward disaster. Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had left their reservations the year before, moving to Montana where Sitting Bull was gathering warriors to fight against the "white-eyes". They were tired and
angry about the continual intrusions on their sacred lands and the lies. Nearby, the U.S. Calvary was on alert, waiting for Colonel Custer and his forces to attack. In the midst of this tension, many stories were unfolding...

Although the main characters of TRAIL OF NO RETURN are fictional, they could just as well have been real. Rose Pryor and Taylor Whitehawk traverse these pages with all the passion, spirit of adventure, bravery, and gumption as anyone who actually lived the Wild West days. With the backdrop of Indian villages and Indian legends, battle plans gone awry, struggles between good soldiers and bad, and questions about what really happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Linda Dockery suffuses insight, romance, and a few surprises into this enjoyable tale.

Karen Marr