Regular print version previously published by: Doubleday.

During the years following the Civil War, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana territories seethed with unrest as the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, resenting the white man's invasion of their sacred hunting grounds, ruthlessly attacked wagon trains and settlements. Knowing the dangers, Lieutenant Zane Travis was surprised to find Mary Gunnison - whom he had loved and lost to a fellow officer - in Cheyenne. Against regulations she joined Travis' mail detail to meet her husband at Fort Fetterman. On the way they were ambushed by Indians, the detail was destroyed, and Mary was captured. Travis survived, though seriously wounded. Facing disgrace and a court-martial, he deserted in a reckless attempt to find Mary in the uncharted wilderness.