James Wolf

No Good Day to Die James Wolf

This sweeping saga of early America follows a cast of historical and fictional characters who have the fight of clashing cultures thrust upon them in unknowable ways. It reveals a haunting image of human perseverance, and the injustice they will commit to prove their way is right.


A Northern Cheyenne, Kills The Sun, is born during a solar eclipse.

Throughout his young life, he struggles to find his place in the tribe. He is

intelligent, but also timid. At fifteen, in the year 1876, he has courage thrust upon him and

fights in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. After several more battles, he

later guides Teddy Roosevelt on a hunting trip in the mountains and saves him

from a bear attack. He meets a movie producer in 1918, goes to Hollywood, and

performs in many Westerns. On August 6th, 1945, he returns to the

Little Bighorn Battlefield with his grandson.



Rob Southerland is born on a sprawling southern plantation.

He fights for the Confederate Army in the Civil War, and then returns home to

find his family slain and their land confiscated. He goes to New Orleans,

marries a beautiful redheaded Creole girl named Jackie, and later serves as

Deputy Marshall in Abilene, Kansas, working directly under Wild Bill Hickok. During

a buffalo hunt, he and Jackie meet the boy Kills The Sun and become friends. Rob

and Jackie move east and open a saloon in Bismarck, North Dakota, but go broke during

the Panic of 1873. With no money and no prospects, Rob joins the 7th

Cavalry, led by General Custer, and rides with them to the Little Bighorn.



On August 6th, 1945 (the day of the atomic bomb

drop on Hiroshima), Rob Southerland's grandson visits the historic site of the

Battle of the Little Bighorn. Here he meets an elderly Northern Cheyenne man

named Kills The Sun, and they engage in a revealing discourse of information.