"In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier--a clash of cultures between the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries and a young, ambitious nation. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Wyoming's Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers. Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds,...

"On December 21, 1866, Red Cloud and the band of Oglala, Lakota, and Cheyenne warriors defeated a U.S. Army force led by Captain William J. Fetterman. The Fetterman defeat ended Rad Cloud's war for control of the Bozeman Trail with the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. GRASSHOPPERS IN SUMMER tells the epic story of making and breaking the Fort Laramie Treaty as seen through the eyes of opposing political, military, railroad, and mining interests...