Dream Catcher

It is 1890. New York. Political corruption is rife. Police are for sale. A young reporter is charged with investigating murders, which are murders, and suicides which may also be murders except that the law can be persuaded otherwise. He takes risks, calculated and otherwise. Not that his own life bears too much investigation. Relationships barely survive a few months at best. Every now and then, though, there is an assignment which appeals. He is sent to interview Mark Twain who had written about the gilded age in which personal and national innocence is traded for wealth. His main problem, though, is that the paper’s owner believes that the Indians have a clue to America’s destiny, so he is sent west to meet Sitting Bull. On the way, he discovers that not everything is as it seems even as he witnesses Sitting Bull’s death and the massacre at Wounded Knee in the company of someone with the ability to turn his life around. In 1890, the frontier was declared closed. Something else ended that year, an idea of America.