Don Coldsmith

Red Feather, the half-French brave who has traded with the Spanish for many summers, cannot read the signs of change when he comes to Santa Fe on a trading trip. His blindness to the conflict lands him behind bars in the tense days prior to the Pueblo uprising.

Pipe Bear, a holy man of the Elk-Dog People, journeys north to seek an answer to a mysterious dream, accompanied by the mare and foal that featured in it. A portrait of the culture of the Plains Indians.