Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest; Or, the Indian Girl Star of the Movies

The year is 1918. Ruth Fielding and her friends are driving through the Great Northwest when their carefree road trip crashes into something neither their textbooks nor their hometown dramas prepared them for: a wild bull charging at their car, and a young Indian girl named Wonota who coolly saves them both with a single rifle shot. Wonota is extraordinary. She's a performer in Dakota Joe's Wild West Show, but behind the spectacle lies something darker: she's trapped under the thumb of a cruel boss who sees her only as a marketable curiosity. Ruth recognizes something rare in Wonota, something that deserves a bigger stage than a cheap traveling show. Her audacious idea: make Wonota a movie star. What follows is an adventure that crosses cultural lines in an America still figuring out who it wants to be after the war. This is a story about friendship that transcends convenience, courage that looks like refusing to look away, and the audacious belief that a young woman from nowhere can still change her own story.