George MacDonald Fraser · 1982 · road

Flashman's American misadventures resume with a wagon-train dash west out of New Orleans up the Santa Fe Trail amid Apaches, scalp-hunters and worse; and, a quarter-century on, a return to the plains that lands him, cowering, in the massacre of Custer's command at the Little Bighorn.

1. 1
   New Orleans

   Where Flashman's flight west begins, up the Mississippi and Missouri to the edge of the frontier.

2. 2
   Independence

   The Missouri jumping-off town where the wagon trains formed up for the trail across the plains.

3. 3
   Santa Fe

   The end of the Santa Fe Trail, gateway to the deserts and the Apache country beyond.

4. 4
   Little Bighorn

   The Montana valley where, decades later, he is caught in the annihilation of Custer's Seventh Cavalry.