Kate Kingshott was a smart, hard working, fourteen-year old farm girl, when her parents and six siblings were cut down in a hail of bullets. Outlaw, Rance Clayton, and his gang of cut throats, torch the family home. Rustle the family cattle. Kate, injured and scarred, survives the fire. Her lifelong friend, Pakuna, a Klamath Indian girl Kate's age, rescues her. For eight years, Kate lives with the Klamath tribe. She and Pakuna grow from teenagers...