Ida Casey Dyer's life was turbulent and dramatic. She and her husband would later achieve fame—her for this book and him for his various business successes. They married, divorced, remarried and divorced again, eventually clashing over possession of the Dyer Collection, today considered one of America's best collections of Native American artifacts (now in the Kansas City Museum). During the time she wrote of in "Fort Reno," her husband was the Indian agent in Oklahoma Territory. They both became enamored of and studied the Native Americans around them, befriending many. Ida learned to speak in sign and later sought a position in the U.S. government to use her skills acquired in Indian territory. They knew Generals Phil Sheridan and Nelson Miles, Buffalo Bill, and many of the other notables of their day. In this classic of frontier adventure, you'll find sparkling descriptions of a lost world written by a sensitive woman who knew she was seeing something that wouldn't last.