In the 1870s the bonds of friendship between a Lakota warrior Shadow Hawk and a US cavalry officer Joshua Tremaine Mackenzie were tested as the Great Sioux War intervened When Hawk s only son is born he names him Tremaine Running Deer to honor his longtime friend Throughout the conflict Hawk s belief fades that one climactic battle over the US Army will return the Lakota to its former greatness He fears for Tremaine s future life on a reservation Fate plays a deadly hand when Shadow Hawk is mortally wounded in battle Having lost Tremaine s mother earlier his worse fears may be realized In a final act he makes Mackenzie promise to raise Tremaine in the white man s world Tremaine is the story of a Lakota warrior who stands in two worlds maintaining his connection to his heritage while following the white man s ways Tremaine s journey takes him from a boy to a man as an expert tracker and guide a respected Deputy Marshal in the Oklahoma Territory and a volunteer cavalryman with Theodore Roosevelt s First Volunteer US Cavalry Regiment the Rough Riders and the charge up San Juan Hill His association with men like Roosevelt Leonard Wood and John Blackjack Pershing set a future path at the turn of the Twentieth Century Throughout his story Tremaine must negotiate the highs and lows of being an Indian among the whites It is a compelling story of clashing cultures and an overwhelming determination to succeed TREMAINE A Lakota Warrior in Roosevelt s Rough Riders I am a Soldier First and Always Book 3 epic historical with so much heartThis epic story was full of history characters depictions of a world not too long ago and very well researched I loved the Lakota American Tremaine and his incredible story his love and loyalty and his sense of pride A really great story James Harold Kelly