"Lifelong loner Yakima Henry unexpectedly befriends Paul Cahill, an old prospector with roots in a once-wealthy Eastern family. When Cahill is mortally wounded by men stalking his and Yakima's trail, Cahill asks Yakima to travel to Northern Dakota Territory and deliver a letter and a belt stuffed with money to his estranged son. On his trip north, Yakima befriends two young sisters whose mother has died and who, escaping an abusive stepfather, are...