Biography of the Scottish immigrant who settled in Dakota Territory in the late 1800's and whose campaign to preserve the vanishing bison was so ardent he became known as "the buffalo king."

In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.

In 1862, two best friends, one white and one half Dakota Indian, find themselves involved in a bloody war when when the Dakotas, fed up with being mistreated by the federal government and local citizens, erupt with violence.