Swift Arrow #4

Swift Arrow shares an ancient tale with the young Running Bow—a story of how the Spaniards first brought horses to his people, beginning with a fateful encounter when the warrior Dark Cloud led a hunting party and discovered mysterious armored strangers riding strange beasts. As the legend unfolds, Dark Cloud must decide whether to treat these golden-clad foreigners as gods or men, setting in motion events that will change his tribe forever.

Swift Arrow's tribe faces annihilation in an endless feud with the Wolf People, a cycle of bloodshed that's claimed warriors for years—until a traveling companion suggests settling the matter the old way, with champions fighting for their people's fate. When Swift Arrow steps into battle against Brave Bull to end the carnage once and for all, honor and desperation collide in a desperate test of skill and character.

When Swift Arrow was a young brave, his beloved Bright Bird was stolen and killed by a ruthless warrior known as the Crow—a tragedy that drove the chief to swear a blood oath of vengeance. For weeks, Swift Arrow pursued his quarry across frozen wilderness, tracking the cunning murderer through snow and forest, his rage and grief the only fuel keeping him alive. Now Lone Rider learns why the great warrior has never taken another squaw, as Swift Arrow reveals the harrowing hunt that would consume his life.

Swift Arrow faces a dire test to his honor when a wagon train is slaughtered by the renegade Bloody Knife, and the great chief is wrongly accused of the attack. Racing to prove his innocence and reclaim his name, Swift Arrow pursues Bloody Knife across the plains while Captain Thomson's soldiers close in on him and his tribe. Can the famous warrior chief clear his honor before injustice claims another victim?