This book is about that most admirable of human virtues--courage. 
'Grace under pressure,' Ernest Hemmingway defined it. These are the stories of the pressure experienced by nine Wyoming citizens and three groups of citizens, i.e., the Black 14, the People of the Wind River Indian Reservation and the internees of Heart Mountain. It's about grace with which the endured the risks to their careers, the unpopularity of their courses, the defamation of their characters, and sometimes, but sadly only sometimes, th vindication of their reputations and their principles. This book is about the flases of courage these women and men exhibited when it mattered most.