Major Wade Chisholm must decIde if he wants to take a promotion to Lt. Colonel. He will get the NEW RANK if he will take on a new assignment to talk with the rouge Indians in the Texas Panhandle area.He decides to do it to save as man of the Indians as he can from a coming massive attack by the army on all Indians not on reservations. He has to negotiate with the Kiowa, the Comanches and the Cheyenne. He does well with the first two tribes but the renegade Cheyenne threaten to shoot him on sight. How can he get to those thousand Indians and try to persuade them to come to a reservation before the army moves in with a kill only mentality?