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This novel tells the truth as some poets remember it. The poets were very old frontiersmen and ancient horse Indians, once hostiles, with whom the author talked over a period of thirty years. And if Charley Goodnight, or Cap Arrington, or Big Tree, or Hunting Horse do not sound like the names of poets, their talk was poetry to Frank Tolbert's ears. And he has reproduced the sounds of their voices in this book. For the people of this novel-- Lonnie Nabors and Dulce Deno and Ranald Mackenzie-- were real people in the Southwest of the 1860's and 1870's. Lonnie's life was the stuff of legend, but it was real. It was a life lived among the wild horse Indians; and except for his coloring, which was very fair, Lonnie could hardly be told from his Indian brothers. He knew their lore and languages; he followed their customs; he shared their women. He wanted no part of civilization and its hampering manners until the day he met Dulce Deno, a beautiful woman of much experience and gambling skill who'd been a spy for General William Tecumseh Sherman's Yankee army. Lonnie changed her life as much as she changed his. This is a swift-moving story, whether its scenes take place in a bedroom in the Menger Hotel, or in a Texas courtroom, or under the cap-rock battlements of Llano Estacado or on the Staked Plain, the sacred hunting ground. In the authenticity and vigor of its portrayal of Indian life, it is no peer. It is both an exciting tale and an unparalleled piece of Americana -- Book jacket.