Audio Book Description:
Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttesyou can hear the wind. And on the back of the wind is the sound of an oldaccordion--tangos--mingling with the lonely thump of a single drum in the nightime and a far off warrior`s cry. To this, to a town called Salamander,comes Carlisle McMillian, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte he finds hisquiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tributeto the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter`s skills, rebuilding his lifeat the same time. He finds two very different, independentwomen: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander and longs forsomething more than she is, andSusanna Benteen, beautiful and enigmatic, a woman the town has labeled a witch. The women and his carpenter`s trade and anOld Indian known as Flute Player bring Carlisle a sense of contentment for a while. But his quiet is shattered as bulldozer treads begin to turn and theYerkes County War commences.
