The Civil War ended in May of 1865. But, war raged with the Indian Nations in the American West. The novel, The Way West, takes the reader back to that time. You will read of the life and dangers on the American Frontier through the eyes of the wives and children of military families assigned to duty there. the Drieborg's youngest son, Jacob and his friend, Kenny Hecht, run away to join the United States cavalry serving in the West. After years of service and enrollment at West Point Military Academy, they are assigned as, officers, to the newly formed 10th Negro Cavalry Regiment, stationed at Fort Hays, Kansas. Soon after their arrival, the two new lieutenants are sent on a mission to rescue a trainload of military families under attack by the war-chief Roman-Nose and his Dog Soldiers. This, sixth and final novel in the Drieborg Chronicles, will take you, from the Drieborg home in Michigan, to the violence of Charleston, South Carolina and, from the rivalries and intrigue of West Point Military Academy, to a violent war of survival on the Kansas Plaines.