Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially the native populations forced onto reservations and then neglected. When she meets Andrew Gratton, a handsome riverboat captain who has been injured on his ship, she uses her skills to tend his wound, and a friendship grows between them. Andrew admires her strength and willingness to...

Sergeant Seamus Donegan, tracking his uncle Ian O'Rourke, arrives at Tule Lake just in time to be caught up in the war between the Army and the Modoc Indians.