Dakota - Softcover

"Matt Braun is one of the best!" --Don Coldsmith, author of The Spanish Bit Series "He tells it straight-and he tells it well." --Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom "Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier history." --Elmer Kelton, author of Pumpkin Rollers "Matt Braun is head and shoulders above all the rest who would attempt to bring the gunmen of the Old West to life." --Terry C. Johnston, author of The Plainsmen series

In 1884, a Harvard-educated legislator from New York set off for Dakota Territory. Staggered by the deaths of his mother and wife, on the same tragic night, Teddy Roosevelt was returning to a place he had visited the year before, a place that had struck him with its fierce beauty and its bounty of big game and big opportunity. By the Little Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt established a ranching empire, and soon stood at the centre of a storm...Less than a decade after an Indian rebellion and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Dakota was being settled by the brave, the ambitious, and the restless. While some men were grabbing power, some were getting away with murder. For Roosevelt, using local cowboys and transplanted Easterners as his ranch hands, this was a place to make his mark, to make a stand and to look a killer in the eye. And this was a time to bring wild Dakota into the heart of America...