Five-Time Winner of the Spur Award from WWA Will Henry"s frontier stories "pull the reader feet-first into worlds that have vanished, except from the pages of books." Lapwai Winter is set in northeastern Oregon in the time of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. A treaty agreement with the Indians has been violated. Winter Shadows finds a band of Mandan Indians facing the hardest winter in their tribal history and their only salvation may rest with an orphaned outcast.