When Twig Tully takes over running his invalid father's giant OT ranch, he encounters such troubles as blizzards and cattle rustlers, but when he learns his misfortune is not entirely accidental, he must keep fighting or risk losing everything to a man who hates him with a vengeance.

For over half a century the Nez Percés had lived in peace with their white neighbors. Now, in 1877, they were to be rewarded for their friendship by being moved to a reservation in Idaho. Gold had been discovered, and the red man had to make room for the prospector and the speculator. Chief Joseph had tried the course of reason, but when neither the white commissioner nor his own angry braves would listen, he had only one choice: to protect his...