by James Fox
First published 2014
A Chinese railroad worker finds an infant beside the corpses of his murdered mother and sister in the aftermath of Little Bighorn. The child grows up on a reservation as Christian LaSalle until fate brings him to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, where he encounters his father and learns his true identity: Little Bear of the Lakota Sioux. Now he must choose between the white world that raised him and his Native American bloodline. His journey takes him from the American frontier to Ireland, where he finds love amid political turmoil, then back to North Dakota and a ranch gifted by President Theodore Roosevelt after Little Bear saves him from a grizzly attack. Along the way he crosses paths with legendary figures from Wyatt Earp to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Collins to Senator Joe McCarthy. Little Bear's struggle between two worlds becomes a search for belonging in a rapidly changing America.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, american, adventure, 19th-century, native-american
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: American Frontier, Ireland, North Dakota, Reservation
Period: Little Bighorn, Reconstruction Era
496 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform