Joe Jennings Knihy

The Buffalo Wheel sits high up in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. This ancient stone circle has been sacred to the native people for thousands of years. But now, something has gone wrong. Sees Wolf, an Arapaho medicine man thinks he knows the problem, but he'll need help to solve it. He'll need some good dogs.Gunny and Luke are back together and joined by a new search dog. With Sam, Steve, Rebecca, and the rest of the team from "Ghosts of Iwo Jima" they'll travel to the Buffalo Wheel and encounter a friendly wolf spirit and an evil man. When Rebecca's life is threatened, it will take all their training and courage to overcome human greed and folly to save her and the Buffalo Wheel.

A search and rescue team travel to the island of Iwo Jima with two remarkable dogs to recover the remains of five young marines missing for over seventy years. This story includes realistic scenes of combat, and there are ghosts, but it is primarily a story about dogs.

What is a dog? Where do dogs come from? What was it like before there were dogs? Thirteen-year-old Clay Webber is curious and full of questions. In his search for answers, he is joined by his Grandpa Sam's search and rescue dog, Gunny. Together they begin to dream of a time fifteen thousand years ago when the future of the human race was in jeopardy. Our ancestors were competing for survival against a host of other predators that were bigger, stronger, and faster than them. They needed help. Clay and Gunny's dreams begin to show them how the early humans got the help they needed. But these are strange dreams, not like any others they have ever had. Are they really dreams? Or are they memories?In the third book of the Sam and Gunny series, go with Gunny and Clay to a strange world in the midst of change and turmoil and see how our race found a partner that would make all the difference - The Very First Dog.