The Official Author SIte of Shane Dunning
The Official Author SIte of Shane Dunning
In the spring of 1890 the Northern Cheyennes are starving. Bureau of
Indian Affairs mismanagement of rations and resources plus a shortage of
wild game lead to acts of desperation. When hungry Cheyenne hunters leave
the reservation to poach white settlers’ cattle and a white settler is killed,
tensions between Cheyennes, white settlers, the U.S. Army, and local law
enforcement quickly escalates.
Twenty-seven-year-old mixed-blood interpreter Willis Rowland, known among
the Cheyennes as Long Forehead, is deputized by a group of prominent white
Montanans and the Custer County sheriff to secretly collect information on
Cheyenne and white criminals operating on and around the reservation. Using
his knowledge of both cultures and languages, Willis begins to uncover clues
about the murder and discovers that a gang of white outlaws with Cheyenne
help are using the reservation as a rest stop. When another white settler is killed
in a butchering incident, the simmering tensions boil over, leading to a violent
clash between the U.S. Army and members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.
Based on years of research, Forest Dunning’s Death at Lame Deer is a riveting
mystery that brings a long-forgotten chapter of Montana history vividly back
to life. Previously published as Between Two Tribes, this revised edition has
been substantially updated to reflect new information and cultural insights
surrounding the tragic actual events it depicts.
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