In her journal, May Dodd records her experiences as a Cheyenne Indian bride, traded by the government in 1875 as part of a secret peace treaty with the Cheyenne nation.
Follows May Dodd as she travels to the Cheyenne, becomes the bride of Little Wolf, chief of that tribe, and struggles with living in and being loyal to two different worlds.
When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teen in Chicago, he heads west, joining the Great Apache Expedition of 1932 in search of a young boy who has been kidnapped by wild Apaches.