{"product_id":"9781944986155","title":"Sleeping Dogs Don't Lie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleeping Dogs Don’t Lie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the story of Clifford Gustafson, born Clifford Whitetail on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana. Orphaned as a young boy, Clifford is adopted and raised by a farm couple in Minnesota—which, he learns after beginning college classes at a university in Minneapolis, was part of the ancestral Cheyenne homeland prior to the 1700s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClifford believes that he was brought back to Minnesota through no choice of his own as providence, and as a sign. At first, he’s not sure exactly what it is a sign of, though. Nevertheless, the revelation kicks off a voyage of discovery for Clifford that leads to a degree in anthropology and a summer job at an important archaeological site on the west slope of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a carefree, educational summer for Clifford is ripped apart by the apparent murder of a beloved workmate, a young woman who had become more than a friend to him. Clifford immediately assumes the responsibility of solving the mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the road to find the questions and the answers takes him on a roller-coaster ride through the high plains of Wyoming and Montana and the rolling prairies of the Heartland. Along the way, he experiences a dangerous falling in with a group of young Cheyennes calling themselves the DSR (Dog Soldiers Resurrected), and forges a friendship with Bill Parsons, an Iowa pig farmer by summer and highly skilled Yellowstone country tracker of poachers come fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart crime novel, part coming-of-age story, and all adventure, Sleeping Dogs Don’t Lie is peppered with enough spirituality to make readers think and enough magic (in particular, the magic of a very special Appaloosa mare) to keep them guessing. Readers will be rewarded with a tale that is exciting, uplifting, and illuminating. By the end, they will be primed and anxious for installment number two of the Clifford Gustafson Trilogy, a tale that will involve an older Clifford and a shocking find high in western Wyoming’s Wind River Range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sastrugi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056763322608,"sku":"9781944986155","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781944986155_p0.jpg?v=1763796468","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944986155","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}