Visible Breath

By Nyla Griffith

From the time of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, the time when Custer first invaded the sacred Black Hills, ancient forces issued a warning to those who came with a black spirit. In the summer of 1874, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer led his expedition through, what is now, the Northwest corner of South Dakota, on his way into the Black Hills. The land, protected against invasion by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, was a place of hostile beauty and long held as sacred by Native peoples of all tribes. Enticed by stories of magic, told to him by his new Arikara scout, Goose, he ventures into an area of ancient mysteries and a sacred cave hidden deep within a sea of prairie. The members of the expedition into the cave are soon haunted by deadly visions of Lakota spirits, and, as history proves, come to violent and untimely ends. But their legacy of contempt for the land and its people continue. As the present energy crises looms, the frantic search for new fuel sources intensifies, reaching far into a long-forgotten land. Northwestern South Dakota is home to more cattle than people, but it harbors a secret that, once discovered, is sought by those hoping to exploit it. Gretchen Mitchell finds herself in a land time forgot, fighting to protect her family from hostile forces. She discovers hidden powers and a secret even the government would like to keep, in a territory for which the Lakota people have been fighting for over a century. With the help of a wichasha wakon, a Lakota holy man, she braves the elements of a brutal land and the people who wish to control it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979358426
• ISBN13: 9780979358425
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: TDG Communications
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.