Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States.

The experiences of Mayer as a buffalo hunter.

Accounts of young Indians and whites who were unwillingly subjected to life in an alien culture during the years of American settlement of the West. Includes the stories of an Osage boy stolen and sold into plantation slavery by the Cherokees and a white girl whose Indian captors provided for her future welfare by giving her a tribal tattoo.