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Thomas McNulty saw his parents and sister die in the Great Famine in Ireland. The orphaned boy traveled to America by way of Quebec, and ended up in Missouri as a teenager. Jobs were scarce for the Irish and he ends up fighting as a soldier clearing the Indians off the American Great Plains in the 1850s. He and his fellow soldier and lover, John Cole, take care of an orphaned Sioux girl and form a family. The two men later fight for the Union in the Civil War.
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