It is January of 1872, and Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, son of the Tsar of Russia, is touring America. Ethan and his adopted daughter, Angel, stumble onto and thwart an assassination attempt on the Grand Duke. This earns them his favor, and they join the Grand Duke's party for the rest of the tour as bodyguards, working for an old friend from the war, Silas Riddle, The Mechanic.Their job takes them to Nebraska with the young duke to hunt buffalo,...

A Lakota Indian legend in which the White Buffalo Woman presents her people with the Sacred Calf Pipe which gives them the means to pray to the Great Spirit.

We are one with all things is the greatest teaching now available to human beings, according to the message of the mythic White Buffalo Woman as recounted by Brooke, a descendant of the famed Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph. She speaks of "the holy work" the work of wholeness, so vitally important to the task of restoring the balance of nature and life, and of how our essence is one of relatedness to all.

Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her fields were near Like-a-fishhook, the earth-lodge village that the Hidatsa shared with the Mandan and Arikara. When she grew older, the families of the...