Buckskin Brigades

A stirring historical adventure that sweeps across the rugged Northwest even as a nation and its destiny are being forged. The journals of Lewis and Clark record that on July 27, 1806, a Blackfeet Indian chief was killed in an encounter with that now-famous expedition. In the same journal, a few pages earlier, is a reference to an unnamed white man who was living with the Blackfeet a few miles away. This is his story. His Indian name was Yellow Hair, and that fatal encounter changed the entire course of his life-sending him on an exciting and daring mission across a vast unmapped and hostile wilderness.L. Ron Hubbard's first published book and full-length Western novel, Buckskin Brigades was a pioneering work in many ways: for its unconventional and honest portrayal of American Indian culture, for its authentic historical detail and its strong awareness of environmental factors.

L. Ron Hubbard's legendary writing career encompassed more than 250 novels, short stories and screenplays in every major genre including 19 New York Times Bestsellers.When he entered the field of science fiction, he wrote high-concept stories that were crowded with action and suspense. Along with a handful of other innovatively imaginative writers, he helped lead the way in creating the Golden Age of Science Fiction and laying the foundation for the genre's continuing popularity and entertainment appeal.Among his bestselling and classic speculative fiction trendsetters as Fear, Final Blackout, Ole Doc Methuselah and his crowning epics, Battlefield Earth and the Mission Earth Series, which together dominated American bestseller lists for 153 weeks.