Paperback. Pub Date: May. 1997 Pages: 160 Publisher: Graphia This gripping Historical novel SET DURING the final YEARS of the Indian Wars Explores army LiFe in the American West AS IT Details one boy's STRUGGLE to become a man. A boy who Grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century Chicago runs away. joins the cavalry. and fights with General Custer in the battle of Little Big Horn.