Winter of the Bone Wagon

About this book:

The buffalo are gone, but their bones remain—bleached white across the Dakota prairie, waiting to be hauled east for fertilizer and sugar. In the bitter winter of 1883, Silas Caine knows every coulee where the great herds fell. A disgraced Army scout with a shattered knee and a past he can't outride, he's content to let the bone pickers kill each other for scraps. Then a St. Louis outfit offers fifty dollars in gold for a guide into the Badlands, where the last big kills lie buried beneath four feet of drift and broken treaties.

The job is simple: lead six heavy wagons south before the iron wind locks the rails. But the Bone Wagon isn't just hauling calcium—it's dragging the weight of every sin committed on the open range. Rival outfits, desperate men, and something older than law are converging on the same frozen ground. And in the deep draws where the Sioux once made their final stand, the dead don't stay buried.

Gritty, relentless, and steeped in the mud and blood of a vanished frontier, *Winter of the Bone Wagon* is a novel of survival where the only currency is bone, the only law is the rifle, and the longest odds are against the weather itself.