Publisher's Synopsis
Smallpox wiped out Wolfberry's family. She spent the winter of 1869-70 alone with their ghosts. In the spring, as Night Walker Woman, a "manly hearted" warrior woman, she sets out to find her world changed by the coming of the Whiskey Traders on the Whoop-up Trail.
John Hoise joined the 2nd Minnesota Cavalry to punish the Injuns for their depredations against white settlers. Now with his partner and friend James Moreau he uses their reputations as skilled Plainsmen to scout and guide the Whiskey traders as they come up the Whoop-up Trail. Jillian Lindahl was just a kid, innocent with a head full of princes and princesses. Her father, always restless, moved his family west to Montana in a quest for gold. It will be with a sense of adventure and unfailing belief in her own abilities that she finds her place in the rough and dangerous world of the Whiskey Traders along the Whoop-up trail.
