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Con la orden de ocupar un puesto militar abandonado, John Dunbar se encontró solo, más allá de los límites de la civilización. El robo y la supervivencia pronto lo obligaron a ingresar al campamento indio, donde comenzó una peligrosa aventura que cambió su vida para siempre.

Inédita hasta ahora en nuestro país, continúa con las aventuras del teniente Dunbar once años después. Convertido en el guerrero comanche Baila con Lobos, Dunbar se ha casado con En Pie con el Puño en Alto, ha tenido tres hijos y vive en paz en el poblado del jefe comanche Diez Osos. Pero esa paz se verá alterada cuando una banda de rangers ataca el poblado y secuestra a su mujer y a su hija.

Eleven years have passed sub Lieutenant John Dunbar became Dances With Wolves and married Stands With A Fist, a white-born woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood. With their three children, they live peacefully in the village of Ten Bears. But there is unease in the air, caused by increased reports of violent confrontations with white soldiers, who want to drive the Comanches onto reservations. Disquiet turns to horror, and then to rage, when a band of white rangers descends on Ten Bear's village, slaughtering half its inhabitants and abducting Stands With A Fist and her baby.

In his New York Times best-selling novel Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake created an unforgettable saga of white and Native American cultures. Now in Marching to Valhalla, Blake unfolds the story of the final months of General George Armstrong Custer, a story that illuminates the epic sweep of his entire life - his career, his passions, his legacy to the American West.

We are all guilty of misconception at differing times in our lives. This short story Gold Taps Nice House highlights our misconceptions and mistakes about people and places that we all too frequently do in our everyday situations. The woman in this short story will be misconceived by the reader as being both really nice and really nasty at different times within the storyline.

It is 1966 and 18-year-old Airman Mortensen has gotten into trouble on a US Air Force base in the southwest. He has disobeyed an officer's order and his punishment begins with permanent latrine duty. He spends day after uncertain day cleaning bathrooms while the paperwork for a court martial makes its way slowly through channels. But at the point his life seems darkest the young airman meets Claire Brill, the base commander's daughter. They fall in love with each other, surrendering completely to the intensity and beauty of first love.

Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it is gone".