Where the River Bends

In Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, there still stands to this day an old ranch house from the 1880's. Some say "Sanctuary", as we'll call it, is haunted with the wailing and screams of some of Big Foot's band of Lakota Indians who made it there after members of the Seventh Cavalry, still seeking revenge for Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn, opened fire on the defenseless Indians, killing many women and children.

This is also the story of tender love between two teenagers, one white and one Indian. It is also about the forbidden, adult love that exits between a widowed rancher and the wife of the local banker.

How the love of these four people and their descendents survive hard times for ranchers and Indians is depicted by faith in God and faith and love for each other.

This is the story of six generations of warriors from the 1880's to the present day who went off to fight in wars from The Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890 to Desert Storm Campaign in the present day.

It is the story of the women who gave their loyalty, support and undying love to their men and the friends who never failed in their devotion to the Smyth/Walking Bear family.

Each generation of this fictional family had to overcome hardships and sufferings in their times of existence.