When Lantana Jones accompanied his father on an expedition into America's western frontier, the boy never suspected the journey would change his life so dramatically.
One cold winter day in the Rockies, Virginia born Lantana, and his best friend, the slave boy Magellan, are abducted by marauding Crow Indians.
As the two boys struggle with the hardships of serfdom in the wilderness, they find that they aren't too different from their captors. As the boys' slowly gain their captor's respect and learn their ways, they find their desire to escape back to civilization lessens.
Lantana becomes a hero by saving two young boys from a raging mountain lion, and he further enhances his position in the tribe by helping to fend off a sneak attack by a rampaging Blackfoot war party.
Only when the two boys are rescued, does Lantana admit to himself that his feelings for his one time keeper, the lovely maiden Touches the Sky, surpass friendship.
Learning that the vengeful Blackfoot were returning in force to exterminate the Crow, Lantana leads an allied force of Indians and frontiersmen back to the Crow village to save the people he has come to admire and to proclaim his love to the girl who has won his heart.
