Rusty Sabin was a child when Cheyenne Indians raided his homestead and killed his mother Raised thereafter by Spotted Antelope and Bitter Root Rusty now known as Red Hawk refuses the compulsory and brutal initiation into the tribe when he is Abandoned by his Cheyenne family Red Hawk takes the advice of a white trader and rides to Witherell the nearest settlement of whites Rusty Sabinxs father lives on the outskirts of Witherell and has dedicated his life to killing Cheyenne warriors for destroying his family He has become such a powerful adversary that the Cheyenne call him Wind Walker Red Hawk who has no recollection of his father wants nothing more than to restore his reputation among the Cheyenne and rejoin the only family he has ever known His plan To kill Wind Walker the bitterest enemy of his people.