The Hermisons raised their sons on a sidehill farm in Tennessee, hunting bears and making due. Jack was young but eager to do his part for the family, and so when word came to him that his kin were in trouble, Jack sets his eyes West, and rides for the Dakota Territory. There in the wild untamed country are the Sioux and the Kiowa, the buffalo and the mountainman... The cattleman and the sodbuster, and the old feud between them. Jack must cross hundreds of miles of wilderness, brave the winter and survive all manner of dangers, make allies and enemies... And at the end of it all, must live to stand by his kin against a ruthless cattle baron and his hired killers.