Boone Terrell didn't want to return home. There were too many painful memories of the changes that had taken place among his Osage tribesmen after oil was discovered on their lands and the white men rushed in to help them spend the profits. But the mysterious telephone call telling him of the death of his close friend Acey Standing Elk brought Boone back home on the run. And when he learns that Acey had died by drowning, Boone's grief turns to burning...

"Maria Tallchief knew she wanted to dance while watching Osage dancers as a child in Oklahoma. For tribal ceremonies, only men were allowed to dance. But, Maria went on to become America's first prima ballerina. She was one of the best dancers in the world"--

Ballerina Maria Tallchief describes her childhood on an Osage reservation, the development of her love of dance, and her rise to success in that field.

"After the Civil War, Colonel Jonathan Wainwright is unable to adjust to his old life in Boston as a doctor, so he joins a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. The train is attacked by Indians and renegades, and his experience in the Union cavalry soon has him fighting in another war. Meanwhile, he is drawn to two very different women: Jane Howard, a lively girl with a traumatic past, and Yellow Leaf, an Osage who joins the train for her own reasons. Yellow...