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As weary settlers begin to infiltrate the Kansas area, a young family of pilgrims settles on a lower stretch of the Cimarron River.

Elizabeth O'Day and her husband, Tom, virtually alone in the wilderness, have been told that the area is safe for whites. However, they soon discover a band of Kiowa Indians, their mood uncertain, living nearly across the river from where they plan to build a home.
An uneasy peace endures between the people on each side of the river, and the two groups manage a sort of wary interaction.

Until the War Between the States erupts nearly...

In the summer of 1916, times were tough on the Cherokee Nation which many were now beginning to call Oklahoma. The Adair children had it no easier, no more difficult than any others. Their father was marginally prosperous, their mother kind, earthy.
The problems plaguing the Adair children were more of their age than of actual want.
At nearly eighteen, Shanna was a dreamer, one who yearned for a future of bright lights and cool, elegant men, of which there were few on the Nation. Tom, at seventeen was tangled in his first love, reckless and eager for adventure. Elizabeth, the youngest...

In the 1830 s in the wild Wyoming territory a young fur trapper named Jonathan Byrd accompanies his older partner to the yearly Rendezvous in a Rocky Mountain valley. Spring is the time for the trappers to sell their furs, to trade for goods, a time for the fur company men to grow rich off the mountain men s labors. French-Canadians, Americans, Indians all come together for trading purposes. Inevitably Rendezvous turns into drunken revelry once whisky is trotted out.
Jonathan Byrd has no taste for whisky, no liking for wild merrymaking or games. He is convinced to try a foot race where...