A New York Times Bestselling Author Spanning the years of the first great settlement of the West, The Removes tells the intertwining stories of fifteen-year-old Anne Cummins, frontierswoman Libbie Custer, and Libbie''s husband, the Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer. When Anne survives a surprise attack on her family''s homestead, she is thrust into a difficult life she never anticipated ? living among the Cheyenne as both a captive and, eventually, a member of the tribe. Libbie, too, is thrown into a brutal, unexpected life when she marries Custer.