All the Buffalo Returning by Dorothy M. Johnson

This sequel to Dorothy M. Johnson's Buffalo Women continues the story of Grandmother Whirlwind's family of Hunkpapa and Oglala Sioux who flee to Canada with Sitting Bull after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This book is a haunting novel about the fate of the Lakotas who find no surcease in Canada but are driven back onto their dwindling reservation by starvation. Stormy, the grandson of Whirlwind, travels with his family to Pine Ridge for Wovoka's Ghost Dance. There, true believers who perform the sacred dance will experience the return of the lost buffalo and pony herds as well as the spirits of the beloved dead.

Paperback
248 pages
ISBN: 0-8032-7590-0

About the author: Dorothy M. Johnson grew up in Whitefish, Montana, and pursued a writing career in New York and other diverse locales before returning to her beloved Montana in the 1950s. She is considered by many to be the dean of women writers of western fiction, and her best works feature strong characters, accuracy of historical and cultural detail, and brevity of style. Her writing awards include a Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, a Levi Strauss Golden Saddle-man Award, and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. 

Image description: The cover features a photograph of an individual riding a horse in a snowy landscape, holding a hunting gun, with two dogs walking out in front of the horse. The image is in the center of the cover, the rest of the cover has a dark green background, has the title printed in yellow at the top of the cover, and the author's name printed in red letters below the image.