Drums Across the River
A wilderness of danger! An empire of savage hate!
A mid-century Western that uses a gold rush conflict between settlers and Native Americans to explore one man's journey from prejudice toward reluctant moral leadership.
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
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