After commencing a study of Native Americans, I crossed paths with the great Lakotah Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and Black Buffalo Woman. That a man could so love a woman that he would forsake all when she chose another, I wondered: If they were alive today, what kind of people would they be, what kind of events would they attract, and would they attract each other? And so it's no coincidence that a midnight phone call draws Elizabeth Ingham from a slow-moving dream hours before departing New Hampshire for a Black Hills venue to write a married man from her life. Urgent, her uncle asks that she...