Danny Blackgoat is a teenager in Navajo country when soldiers burn down his home, kill his sheep and capture his family.
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Jim teaches Danny how to hold his anger and starts him on the road to literacy.
There he battles bullying fellow prisoners, rattlesnakes and abusive soldiers until he meets Jim Davis.
Refusing to accept captivity, he is sent to Fort Davis, Texas, a Civil War Prisoner outpost.
During the Long Walk of 1864, Danny is labeled a troublemaker and given the name Fire Eye.
Danny Blackgoat is a teenager in Navajo country when soldiers burn down his home, kill his sheep and capture his family