All of the characters, places and events in this series are entirely fictitious but they are all inspired by 3 years of extensive historical research.

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As a result, some of the people and places have indirect relationships to real historical figures and geography. For readers with some knowledge of this history it may be of interest to know these equivalences.

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(≅ is the mathematic symbol for “approximately equal to”)

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The Towering Mountains ≅ The Rocky Mountains

Moosejaw Mountains ≅ The Bitteroot Mountains

The Beartooth Mountains ≅ The Sawtooth Mountains

The Big River ≅ The Columbia River

Deep Falls ≅ The Dalles

The Hookmouth River ≅ The Snake River

The Shoal River ≅ The Clearwater River

The Stony River ≅ The Salmon River 

Wise Water ≅ Wallowa Lake

Three Rivers ≅ Spalding/Lapwei

Sweetroot Meadow ≅ Wieppe Prairie

Coho Falls ≅ Celilo Falls (equivalent in function but not location)

The Dead Lands ≅ Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve

The Great Salt Water ≅ The Pacific Ocean

 

Coyote Horse ≅ Cayuse Horse

Narrow River People ≅ Nez Perce

Walking People ≅ Yakama

Hookmouths ≅ Aspects of Crow, Bannock & Northern Shoshone

Blackhearts ≅ Blackfeet

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Thunder Cloud ≅ Chief Joseph (Hmn-ut-too-yah-lat-lat - Thunder rolling out of the mountains)

White Horse ≅ Old Chief Joseph

Shouting Sky ≅ Smohalla

Many Faces ≅ Lawyer/Hallalhotsoot

Broken Hand ≅ Twisted Hair

 

Ellis & Clay ≅ Lewis & Clark

Maddox Whitehead ≅ Marcus Whitman

Nyssa Whitehead ≅ Narcissa Whitman

Governor, Galton Adderley ≅ Governor, George Abernethy

Governor, Stewart ≅ Governor Issac Stevens

Colonel John Ward ≅ Colonel George “Hang ’em all!” Wright

General Harrison ≅ General Otis Howard

Gen. James Powhatan Simpson ≅ Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman