Terry C. Johnston

Sergeant Seamus Donegan, tracking his uncle Ian O'Rourke, arrives at Tule Lake just in time to be caught up in the war between the Army and the Modoc Indians.

Paddock and Scratch, having settled a bloody score with turncoat McAfferty, are welcomed into the Crow village where they are able to rest and heal until a misunderstanding over a beautiful young woman causes a rift in their friendship.

Turn the Stars Upside Down is the compelling and little-known story of Crazy Horse's surrender in 1877 only months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people. For all his life, this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless. But surrounded now on a tiny red island in a sea of...

Cries from the Earth Terry C. Johnston By mid-1877, trouble in the Northwest is brewing like a foul broth. Ill will is growing between white settlers and the Non-Treaty bands of the Nez Perce. The American government is forcing the Indians from their homelands onto the reservation. Many go quietly, thinking more about their families than of the pride of their warriors. But for a few holdouts, there's no room for compromise. Their history, their...

Dying Thunder Terry Johnston Newly freed from service with the 10th Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow the shrinking herds into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche. The presence of the white men ignites a storm of Indian fury and the group is besieged. Donegan and some 27 men and one woman take shelter in a few sod shanties. They hold off over 700 braves for five days in the fight at Adobe Walls. From...

High in the Rockies lay the Bayou Salade, a lush beaver-rich valley so untouched that the few white men who had seen it called it paradise. But for Scratch Bass, his young partner Josiah Paddock, and the two Indian women they loved, this paradise would open up a hell of violence. Pursued by a vengeful Arapaho raiding party, Scratch will lead his small band through a flurry of arrows all the way to Taos itself. Yet the trail of blood will not end there....

Scout Seamus Donegan begins to wonder whether he will ever see his wife and newborn son again when his commander Colonel Nelson A. Miles makes a push into butte country and an engagement with the Lakota Indians.

Seamus Donegan's joy in the birth of his first son is cut short when he is ordered by Lt. General Phil Sheridan to be part of an advance team scouting the area in preparation for a move against the elusive Sioux warrior Crazy Horse.