Levi Thurston: mountain man, wanderer, Indian fighter. He haunts the wide open places of a newly opened West. His only companions... a reluctant coydog and a Hawken rifle.

When he is ambushed by Ute warriors, Levi takes shelter in a sacred burial ground. Convinced he has caught a curse, he must seek out a Blackfoot Medicine Woman, the young and beautiful Apaniaki, daughter of Chief Black Crow to help lift it. But what starts out as a simple-enough quest devolves into a fight for his life and an unexpected love as Levi finds himself caught in the middle of warring tribes.