Editorial Review:

Thomas McCabe is Yale graduate on his way to a brilliant career as a lawyer when, in 1837, he gives up everything to take a job with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sent to live with a little-known tribe in the wilds of Missouri, McCabe soon finds that nothing could have prepared him for the rigors of the untamed West. After saving the life of a young brave, McCabe is grudgingly accepted by the Cheyenne-until he falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful, and betrothed, Night Bird Woman. Determined to marry the girl he has seen all his life in dreams, McCabe must prove himself to the tribe, first by challenging her suitor, then by surviving the excruciatingly painful and spiritually breathtaking Test of Fire. It is through this initiation that he is visited by a Spirit Vision, one that carries a message powerful enough not only to teach Thomas the true meaning of courage, but to remake the lives of the proud-and imperiled-people he will come to call family.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Great story but bad ending.:

I just finished this book last night. It had a great story but a sad ending. I was hoping Thomas McCabe and Night Bird Woman would live together forever as husband and wife. Unfortonately that didn't happened. Don't get me wrong they live together until death do they part, but I was hoping they would live together until they die of old age!! Because of that I give this book 3 stars instead of 5. Other than that it was a good book.

Good Book about Life with the Cheyenne!:

This is a fast-paced story with lots of action about Thomas McCabe sent to live with a tribe of Cheyenne in Missouri in l837.
Customs, traditions and a way of life he soon comes to appreciate are all part of the plot as he is sent on a job for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to observe and record the Cheyenne for the Bureau. Excitement and adventures are in each chapter of the novel. A good read!
Evelyn Horan - teacher/counselor/author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Books One - three

A very good historial read:

After four years of reading the law in Boston, Yale graduate Thomas Benton McCabe decides he needs a change. He accepts a position with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and almost immediately is sent west to write a report on a remote Cheyenne tribe. At home, the assignment seemed easy, but in the middle of Missouri exclusively surrounded by Indians for miles, the job appears impossible.

Thomas saves the life of a Cheyenne chief, Spotted Fox. Though he distrusts the whites who always come in peace, a... more info

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