Kit Butler and Lige Turner remember the days when they were welcome at an Indian fire, squatting at a powwow, and gorging on half-cooked buffalo hump. But times have changed. Too many whites are moving West, and the Indians are attempting to throw back the tide.
With the fur trade gone, Kit and Lige find themselves guiding a wagon train of thirty wagons with one hundred sixty people--only seventy-seven are men--west from Independence, Missouri, to Fort Collins, through hostile Indian country. The members of the wagon train are sure all this talk about Indians is just stories--a way to keep a firm control over them. After all, they haven't seen any sign of Indians.
But Kit and Lige are aware of the fact that someone's been watching the Wagon Train for several days ...
