The late 1860s were a time of war, and the north Texas frontier was a battlefield. People of the Storm is a sweeping historical novel about the epic and often brutal struggle between the United States and the Kiowa Indians over land, culture, and a way of life. The narrative ranges from cabinet meeting rooms in Washington to the treaty negotiations at Medicine Lodge, to the lodges of the Kiowas, and finally to the U.S. Army’s desperate battles in the field, told from the viewpoints of reporter Henry Stanley, Kiowa sub-chief Night Horses, and army scout Brady Sewell. Allen Lee Hamilton is a Professor of Texas and U.S. History at St. Philip’s College, and he has crafted a vibrant and historically accurate tale of two worlds in conflict, and the change that was inexorably descending on both.
The late 1860s were a time of war, and the north Texas frontier was a battlefield. People of the Storm is a sweeping historical novel about the epic and often brutal struggle between the United States and the Kiowa Indians over land, culture, and a way of life. The narrative ranges from cabinet meeting rooms in Washington to the treaty negotiations at Medicine Lodge, to the lodges of the Kiowas, and finally to the U.S. Army’s desperate battles in the field, told from the viewpoints of reporter Henry Stanley, Kiowa sub-chief Night Horses, and army scout Brady Sewell. Allen Lee Hamilton is a Professor of Texas and U.S. History at St. Philip’s College, and he has crafted a vibrant and historically accurate tale of two worlds in conflict, and the change that was inexorably descending on both.