Historical Fiction
Rain-in-the-Face
Before he became a legend, he was a man defending a world under siege.
History remembers the battle. This story remembers the life that led to it.
Rain-in-the-Face lived through a generation of broken treaties, military campaigns, and relentless pressure on the Lakota way of life. His name became inseparable from one of America’s most disputed battles, while the man behind it was reduced to rumor.
This novel returns to the choices, loyalties, losses, and resistance that shaped him before history decided what his story should mean.
Brian R. Smith 