In this Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Short Novel, young Daniel Killstraight returns to the reservation after spending seven years back east, forced to travel the white man's road by learning their ways at the Carlisle Industrial School in Pennsylvania. After watching a childhood friend, Jimmy Comes Last, hang on the Fort Smith gallows for a grisly double-murder, Daniel is asked by his old friend's mother to prove that her dead son was innocent of the crime.
