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This is a memoir of the life of a simple man named Ray McCright with added thoughts from his sons and his granddaughters. Raised to the hard work and long days of a mule-farm in Saline County Arkansas, toughened during the Great Depression, and with a deep-set value system that included his obligation to defend his country, he became part of Tom Brokow's Greatest Generation. Off to New York with the U. S. Army and then England, France, Belgium, and Germany, he took his epic journey. After suffering through the trials of World War II, Ray McCright returned to his wife and young son to continue...

In 1979, this writer interviewed Alberta Begay in a nursing home in Alamogordo, New Mexico. She was the youngest daughter of Massai, a Chiricahua brave. This warrior slipped off the prisoner train several hundred miles east of New Mexico in 1886 when the captive Apaches were being relocated to Florida.

Massai walked back to New Mexico without being detected, stole a Mescalero woman, who bore him five children. Massai and his family roamed, raided and killed as free Indians in New Mexico and Arizona Territories as well as Mexico. In 1906, cowboys finally killed him and cremated his body.

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Nate Hayes accompanies the Punitive Expedition under the command of General John J. (Blackjack) Pershing as United States Army troops march into Mexico searching for Pancho Villa. The President authorized the invasion of foreign soil in 1916 after the devastating raid on Columbus, New Mexico. Modern soldiers need old fashioned tracking talents that have almost disappeared. Ol' Nate Hayes was a scout for the bluecoat Army during the Indian campaigns in the late 1800's, where he knew Lieutenant Pershing, and is the best tracker still alive. Pershing calls him from retirement to support the...