John Ermine of the Yellowstone

The American West at its most raw and violent. A white child raised among the Crow. This is the story of John Ermine, a man who belongs fully to neither world and entirely to both. When miners in the rough boomtown of Virginia City hear rumors of a white boy living among the Crow, they mount a rescue mission, though rescue might mean different things to different men. John Ermine has built a life, a family, a sense of self among people who took him in when his own kind would have left him to die. Now white men come to take him back, and he must choose: the civilization that spawned him, or the people who made him who he is. Remington captures the West not as myth but as a place where cultures collide, where identity is forged in fire, where love and loyalty cut across every boundary a man tries to draw. This is a novel about what it means to belong, and what it costs.