William Bennet Sterling and his best friend Jacob Brown enlist in the famed seventh cavalry and find themselves fighting for their lives in and around the area of the Little Bighorn Valley. This book covers Custer's operation from the point of leaving Fort Abraham Lincoln all the way to the historic massacre and 36 hour siege on Reno Hill. Everything is factual right down to the wounds received and the point in the battle they received them. Only Jake and Will are fictional.