WAR DRUMS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER1875-throbbing war drums and distant signal fires told of deadly danger. The Sioux were gathering, moving in…That year Kern Shafter joined the sun-scorched Seventh Cavalry, a proud and bitter regiment led by an officer named Custer. That year Shafter met a woman he had to have-and a man he had to kill!Here is Ernest Haycox at his best, with an unforgettable drama of violence and high courage during the battle for the Western plains.A BLOOD-MADDENED INDIAN HORDE…A REGIMENT OF DOOMED MEN…TWO MEN SWORN TO HATED…and the woman they wanted…Here are the brawling, hard-bitten cavalrymen, the pounding excitement and raging passions of frontier men and their women. Here is silent kern Shafter’s fiery story, an epic of the plains told by the great Ernest Haycox.