High in the Wind River Mountains where the lodge pole pines give way to short shrubs and wildflowers, live the Mountain Shoshone, also known as the Sheep Eaters. They are a peaceful people who want nothing more than to live separate from other tribes and the invading white man. They feel safe here, high above timber line, protected by the Toyawo, the powerful mountain medicine. Aggretta, a widow at only twenty summers has dedicated her life to becoming a medicine woman, taught by Kwinaa, the wise and feared puhagant of the Tukadika tribe. When a white trapper is found badly injured, Kwinaa...