Killdeer Mountain
Subtitle: a novel
By: Dee Brown.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction.; Indians of North America -- Wars -- Fiction.; Dakota Indians -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Description: Sam Morrison, reports for the "Saint Louis Herald," is in Dakota country looking for stories. He decides to join a group of passengers on a steamboat going up the Missouri River for the dedication of a new fort named in honor of one Charles Rawley. On the way he talks to a number of different people about Rawley, including a mysterious stranger who might even be Rawley himself, though Sam has been given at least two eyewitness accounts of Rawley's death. The stranger, who calls himself Alex Selkirk (the true name of Robinson Crusoe, though this is never mentioned), might however, be a former Rebel named Drew Hardesty - also reportedly dead. Is Rawley a hero or fraud? Is he alive or dead? Morrison is determined to find out.