The Year the Cloud Fell
by Kurt R. A. Giambastiani

Description:
The year is 1886. For eighty years the United States has been in a state of undeclared war with the Indian nations of the Cheyenne Alliance over the unsettled frontier. This is not history, but a compelling story of an alternate nineteenth-century American West...

President George Armstrong Custer orders his only son--a captain in the U.S. Army--to fly an experimental dirigible over the Unorganized Territory to chart the locations of the United States' Indian enemies. Before he can complete his mission, a thunderstorm strikes the aircraft from the sky--and George A. Custer, Jr., finds himself taken prisoner.

The Cheyenne Alliance has grown weary of their conflict with the Horse Nations. Now, with the son of Long Hair in their possession, perhaps the enemy will listen to reason. But one young woman among them with visions of the future believes that their prisoner--One Who Flies--has been sent by the Thunder Beings in the sky to save them....