by Arvid Lloyd Williams

Arvid Lloyd Williams, author of the acclaimed Hawk's Valley: A Good Place To Die, has teamed with author Bonnie Shallbetter to bring you the long-awaited dramatic sequel, Sophie's Hawk: Spirit of the Raptor.

The Indian wars in Minnesota were declared officially over by the end of 1862. However, bands of hostile Sioux still roamed the Big Woods and the prairies of Minnesota. Hawk and Jake Owen are appointed by Colonel Sibley to search out and rescue a missionary who had been captured by the Sioux. Follow them through hostile Indian country along the Minnesota frontier to Big Stone Lake, through Brown's Valley, around Lake Traverse and into Dakota Territory. Through their adventures you'll meet Standing Buffalo, the friendly chief of the Sisseton band of Sioux, and Little Crow, Chief of the Mdewakanton band of Sioux and reluctant leader of the hostile warriors.
Old friends are reunited and new and interesting characters are introduced, each with his own story to tell, in the continuing saga that is a blend of true-life history, fiction, romance, and tragedy mixed lightly with a dash of Williams/Shallbetter humor. You will chuckle at the antics of Mister Erickson and Grampaw Wells. You ll shudder from the violence of war -- and perhaps shed a tear.