“I was Indian, but no more. Now I’m something different altogether.” “I’ve spent these last years taking from people. Their money. Their livelihoods. And if you were to ask me what I was doing it for, I couldn’t give you an honest answer. Mostly I told myself it was to get revenge on Whites, but that isn’t it. Not all of it, anyway." Michael A. McLellan continues to reshape the Historical Fiction/Western genre with the third book in The Americans series. In this standalone companion to In the Shadow of the Hanging Tree and The Scout of Wounded Knee, a ten-year-old boy is taken from his family and sent to a Christian boarding school in southwest Kansas, where he’s given a new name and stripped of everything Indian . The school, run by an enigmatic man known only as Reverend, immerses its students in English and religion under the guise of assimilation into White society. As the boy becomes a young man, he finds himself caught between who he was, and who he was taught to be. "Utterly brilliant."—Andy Marr, author of Hunger For LIfe