Josiah Pike, a captive of the Lakota, Sioux, came into manhood the hard way...a slave, an outcast, a young man constantly tested...who finally proved himself as a warrior among a people being driven and overwhelmed by a force they didn't understand and came to despise. A turbulent story of man against man, man against the elements, and oft-times, man against himself... who he was, who he found himself to be, and who he eventually evolved...