Long winter gone
By: Terry C. Johnston
Series: Son of the plains -- v. 1
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780553286212
Description: After a year of retirement at the end of the Civil War, George Armstrong Custer is summoned by General Sheridan and appointed to the cavalry to quell the Indians of the Southern plains territory.  Success in this area leads Sheridan to have Custer subdue the Sioux and Cheyenne of the Northern plains. Custer carries on an extra-marital affair with a young Indian girl. This novel is a prelude to the Battle of Little Big Horn.