The June Rise brings to life the true story of Joseph Antoine Janis's visionary transformation from a Missouri farmboy to an advisor to Lakota chief, Red Cloud. An epic story of Antoine Janis, a real-life "mountain man" unlike any buckskin figure ever created by Hollywood or the dime novel. Bill Tremblay was born and brought up in the shadow of the mills and factories of Southbridge, Massachusetts. After receiving his M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, he moved west to Colorado, where for almost 30 years he has been a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Colorado State University. Historical