"The second novel in an ambitious series, Buffalo Gordon on the Plains follows Nate Gordon as he heads West, away from the place where he was a slave before joining the Union Army. Nate has stayed on in the Union Army and he has joined General Sheridan's winter campaign to destroy the hostiles that were raiding frontier settlements on the plains. Here he faces for the first time the man who would become his nemesis, the mysterious Cheyenne Dog Soldier,...

William Boston has just joined the all-black 24th infantry of the United States Army. A natural leader, Boston quickly rises within his troop and is looked up to by the others. When the men are sent to the South, where racism runs rampant in a merciless community, the troop is pushed to their limit. After endless brutal acts of violence, Boston and the men turn their fear and rage against the city, inciting one of the deadliest riots in history.