Bear River Massacre, Idaho, 1863--Fiction; Shoshoni Indians--Fiction; Mormon pioneers--Idaho--Fiction.
In 1862, Moroni Stewart escapes the horrors of the Civil War only to find himself in another war, this time between settlers and Indians.
As Moroni finds love while rescuing a young widow and her son in the Idaho wilderness, Patrick Conner and his California volunteers are marching form Salt Lake to take on the entire Shoshone Nation in their winter camp on the Bear River. [publisher's blurb]