Back to the Bighorn

A historically based “what if” thriller, "Back to the Bighorn" revolves around Jim Sullivan, a graduate student working toward his doctorate in history at the University of Colorado/Boulder. While there, he meets and becomes close friends with Scott Adler, a brilliant young astrophysicist who has developed a device that allows access to “coexisting states of being”—alternate dimensions—to use the popular term. The two collaborate and use the device to reverse the outcome of the Custer massacre at the Little Bighorn. After several trial tests, one of which involves a "trip" to 60s era Las Vegas, the plan is put into motion. Jim, disguised as an army scout and dispatch rider, appears at key times and locations to choreograph events of the battle. At one point, he is attacked by a young Sioux brave who has left his reservation to join Sitting Bull. The work contains a great deal of factual information surrounding the battle and, without getting too technical, weaves in elements of particle physics, chaos theory, the "butterfly effect" and the operation of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. It contains only the occasional mild expletive and no graphic sexual content.