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Sacred Ground: The Vanishing Frontier
A love lost, a frontier fading, and a destiny written in the dust of the American West.After the tragic death of his Crow Indian wife, Graham Davidson is left adrift, searching for a purpose that always seems just out of reach. His journey leads him to join Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, where he crosses paths with Sitting Bull, Annie Oakley, and other legends. He meets an aspiring horsewoman named Grace, whose friendship awakens feelings he thought were buried forever.
Beyond the spectacle of the arena, an Indian prophet inspires the Ghost Dance, a religion that sweeps across the plains. Fearing an uprising from the Lakota Sioux, the government tries to suppress the movement, and tension rises on the reservations.
Graham finds a temporary home with the Wild West, but his heart is restless. Torn between a possible future with Grace and the haunting pull of an uncertain trail, he leaves the show.
But fate calls him once more—this time to Wounded Knee, where a Sioux child he once saved faces grave danger.
If you like sweeping frontier adventures, unforgettable history, and emotional journeys, then you’ll love Sacred The Vanishing Frontier.
Beyond the spectacle of the arena, an Indian prophet inspires the Ghost Dance, a religion that sweeps across the plains. Fearing an uprising from the Lakota Sioux, the government tries to suppress the movement, and tension rises on the reservations.
Graham finds a temporary home with the Wild West, but his heart is restless. Torn between a possible future with Grace and the haunting pull of an uncertain trail, he leaves the show.
But fate calls him once more—this time to Wounded Knee, where a Sioux child he once saved faces grave danger.
If you like sweeping frontier adventures, unforgettable history, and emotional journeys, then you’ll love Sacred The Vanishing Frontier.
364 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 10, 2025
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D.A. Galloway
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I grew up in rural Pennsylvania near Gettysburg. After a long career in the paper industry and writing a bestselling nonfiction book, Safety WALK Safety TALK, I decided to follow a once-dormant dream of writing a novel. I enjoy reading about adventurers and explorers, traveling internationally, riding a recumbent tandem bike, and spending time with my grandsons.
Burning Ground was inspired by two memorable summers of my youth.
As a teenager, I worked on a fruit farm in Pennsylvania. It is here I met Redfield, a Crow Indian who lived a simple life but had a profound effect on the way I saw the world and people around me.
As a young man, I spent a summer in Yellowstone National Park in the late 1970's giving guided tours on Yellowstone Lake. When I was not working, my days were spent exploring all corners of that magnificent land, often in the backcountry. My love for our nation's first national park is rooted in that wonderful experience. I've included some photos from my time in the park in the Author Updates.
I am currently working on the sequel to Burning Ground, tentatively titled Fatal Ground.
dgallowayusa@yahoo.com
I grew up in rural Pennsylvania near Gettysburg. After a long career in the paper industry and writing a bestselling nonfiction book, Safety WALK Safety TALK, I decided to follow a once-dormant dream of writing a novel. I enjoy reading about adventurers and explorers, traveling internationally, riding a recumbent tandem bike, and spending time with my grandsons.
Burning Ground was inspired by two memorable summers of my youth.
As a teenager, I worked on a fruit farm in Pennsylvania. It is here I met Redfield, a Crow Indian who lived a simple life but had a profound effect on the way I saw the world and people around me.
As a young man, I spent a summer in Yellowstone National Park in the late 1970's giving guided tours on Yellowstone Lake. When I was not working, my days were spent exploring all corners of that magnificent land, often in the backcountry. My love for our nation's first national park is rooted in that wonderful experience. I've included some photos from my time in the park in the Author Updates.
I am currently working on the sequel to Burning Ground, tentatively titled Fatal Ground.
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November 29, 2025
I have enjoyed all of the books in this series. This might be the best one yet. I love how the author inserts historical fact and his fictional characters together. Each book is a wonderful history lesson. I hope that the author continues with this journey.
November 30, 2025
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Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2025
Format: Kindle
D A Galloway’s 4th book in this gripping series about frontier time traveler Graham Davidson follows in the footsteps of the first three stories as I find them to be unputdownable. BurnIng Ground introduces us to Graham as he travels back in time to 1871 and joins Hayden’s expedition mapping out what becomes Yellowstone National Park. It is there he meets and falls in love with Makawee, a beautiful Crow guide. They begin their life adventurous life together.The harsh frontier life tests his courage and resolve and Graham opts to stay in this world rather than go back to his modern world set in 1971, also in Yellowstone national park.. In book 2 “Fatal Ground” we find Graham having to prove his love to Makawees father, Long Horse. In a string of events Graham finds himself fighting ,along with Crow Indians in the battle of the Little Big Horn against General Custer. The 3rd book ‘BitterGround” picks up with the white men forcing the native Americans from their homes. Graham and Makawee join the Nez Perce Indians , led by Chief Joseph on a very perilous journey through Idaho and Montana in their quest to join Lakota Chief Sitting Bull and his tribe of Lakotas in Canada. The brutal battles they endure continuously on this travel to freedom will make you want to hate the white soldiers and respect the tenacity, unselfishness, and loyalty of the Indians to each other. Now we get to book 4 “Sacred Ground”. Without giving too much away from the previous books, the 4th book finds Graham as a animal handler in Buffalo Bills Wild West Show. Here he meets Sitting Bull again and has several Indian friends whom also work for the show. Graham finds commeraderie with the cowboys and Indians who work in this traveling very successful show. He also meets gun shooting sensation Annie Oakley and Grace , an aspiring horsewoman. As in all 4 of the books, the history is meticulously researched..After several years with the show, Graham goes to Montana to work on a friends ranch. On his way there he stops to visit with some Indians from the show who were friends. This is when Graham learns of the slaughter of native Americans at Wounded Knee and begins searching for a Sioux warrior he had rescued from the battle of little big horn. There is so much history to be learned from this series. The writing makes you feel you are on the frontier yourself. The descriptions of the land is beautiful and the descriptions of the battles are wretched and haunting. . I have loved every book in this series and I'm always sad when I’m done reading them. I am not a fan of time travel but I did read these and I cannot get enough of them. I want more. I recommend all 4 books in this series. I’m am hoping “Sacred Ground” will not be the last adventure for Graham. Highly recommend! Thank you David for an ARC of this book. I bought it to have the collection. Bravo David!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2025
Format: Kindle
D A Galloway’s 4th book in this gripping series about frontier time traveler Graham Davidson follows in the footsteps of the first three stories as I find them to be unputdownable. BurnIng Ground introduces us to Graham as he travels back in time to 1871 and joins Hayden’s expedition mapping out what becomes Yellowstone National Park. It is there he meets and falls in love with Makawee, a beautiful Crow guide. They begin their life adventurous life together.The harsh frontier life tests his courage and resolve and Graham opts to stay in this world rather than go back to his modern world set in 1971, also in Yellowstone national park.. In book 2 “Fatal Ground” we find Graham having to prove his love to Makawees father, Long Horse. In a string of events Graham finds himself fighting ,along with Crow Indians in the battle of the Little Big Horn against General Custer. The 3rd book ‘BitterGround” picks up with the white men forcing the native Americans from their homes. Graham and Makawee join the Nez Perce Indians , led by Chief Joseph on a very perilous journey through Idaho and Montana in their quest to join Lakota Chief Sitting Bull and his tribe of Lakotas in Canada. The brutal battles they endure continuously on this travel to freedom will make you want to hate the white soldiers and respect the tenacity, unselfishness, and loyalty of the Indians to each other. Now we get to book 4 “Sacred Ground”. Without giving too much away from the previous books, the 4th book finds Graham as a animal handler in Buffalo Bills Wild West Show. Here he meets Sitting Bull again and has several Indian friends whom also work for the show. Graham finds commeraderie with the cowboys and Indians who work in this traveling very successful show. He also meets gun shooting sensation Annie Oakley and Grace , an aspiring horsewoman. As in all 4 of the books, the history is meticulously researched..After several years with the show, Graham goes to Montana to work on a friends ranch. On his way there he stops to visit with some Indians from the show who were friends. This is when Graham learns of the slaughter of native Americans at Wounded Knee and begins searching for a Sioux warrior he had rescued from the battle of little big horn. There is so much history to be learned from this series. The writing makes you feel you are on the frontier yourself. The descriptions of the land is beautiful and the descriptions of the battles are wretched and haunting. . I have loved every book in this series and I'm always sad when I’m done reading them. I am not a fan of time travel but I did read these and I cannot get enough of them. I want more. I recommend all 4 books in this series. I’m am hoping “Sacred Ground” will not be the last adventure for Graham. Highly recommend! Thank you David for an ARC of this book. I bought it to have the collection. Bravo David!!
November 17, 2025
He has done it again! Galloway has taken us on another exciting adventure into the settling of our country’s western frontier. And with the painstaking historical accuracy and detail that I’ve come to expect and respect in his whole series of books. His style of weaving factual history into his deeply developed characters kept me turning the pages and never wanting to put the book down. I literally binge read the book, picking it up at every spare moment I had! I found myself literally cheering, laughing and crying aloud as Graham brushes shoulders with the famous cowboys, Indians, men, women, and horses of the era while also dealing with his unresolved feelings of the loss of his wife Makawee and the separation from his biological and adopted children. His book is highly entertaining and educational, and I highly recommend it!
January 26, 2026
This is a nice addition to the series. Graham Davidson is at a crossroad of life after his Crow Indian wife has died. He joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show where he travels around the US and to Europe. During this time he meets some interesting characters that include Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull.
However, there are problems on the US plains where the US government is worried about a movement that includes the "Ghost Dance". Graham finds himself in a turbulent environment that leads him to the massacre at wounded knee.
I felt that the portion of the book dealing with the Wild West Show was a bit slow. The history of the "Ghost Dance" is interesting and describes another sad chapter in the relationship between the European invaders of North America and the indigenous people.
One should read the 4 books in order. They should be of interest to anyone interested in the history of the American West.
However, there are problems on the US plains where the US government is worried about a movement that includes the "Ghost Dance". Graham finds himself in a turbulent environment that leads him to the massacre at wounded knee.
I felt that the portion of the book dealing with the Wild West Show was a bit slow. The history of the "Ghost Dance" is interesting and describes another sad chapter in the relationship between the European invaders of North America and the indigenous people.
One should read the 4 books in order. They should be of interest to anyone interested in the history of the American West.
November 17, 2025
Galloway does it again with Book four in the Frontier Traveler series. In Sacred Ground, Galloway transports Graham, and us, into a fascinating period of history - giving us a ring side seat at Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and pulling us into the tragic events that befell Native Americans in the late 1800's. The characters are colorful and based on actual events. History buffs will enjoy the attention to detail including the photos and portraits as well as the additional historical information found in the Notes section. It's a compelling story, richly told, and well referenced. Definitely worth reading!
January 9, 2026
I’ve read all the books in Galloway’s frontier series and feel like I’ve learned so much about our country’s history through his fictional characters. This was a fun one - it takes you overseas with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West tour!
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