The opening, accounts how a Union Army Lieutenant is put in charge of transporting gold from Wheeling, West Virginia to Philadelphia Pennsylvania so it will not fall into Confederate hands. Such a journey has a few highs but as it moves along through Northern towns. Living in poverty and having nobody who will stand up for them as a real parent, two young boys take fate in their hands go against all that is right and become victorious despite all odds. Facing the facts of what they had done and how it will probably end, they seal their own fate. Nearly half a century after the fact, a trio of...

TiFahi, granddaughter of Walking Bird grows with the promise of taking leadership from her grandmother when of age. Finding her place in her peoples society she learns early to listen and think out things heard and learned. Becoming a useful member of her people by going off with those who gather salt, a valued item by her and all people. Learning of a great power given by the Spirits, she learns it's limitations. It becomes a power she uses to gather information which saves her people from becoming victims of warring people. Telling her grandmother of this power, she is given a task which...