Half-breed Silas Hastings seeks forbidden love as Ute warriors sweep across Central Utah leaving death and destruction in their path.

A loud ping over the intercom awoke Huber from his fitful siesta. The fasten seat belt sign illuminated overhead. Still half asleep Huber buckled himself in. He scanned the rows ahead and behind him before a sickening realization hit him. Everyone was gone. The plane was empty.

This thrilling adventure novel tells the story of a famous real-life massacre that occurred on a Ute reservation in Colorado in 1879, three years after the Custer disaster at Little Big Horn.The explosive situation between the Utes and the bullheaded Indian agent, Nathan Meeker, has been building up for some time because of Meeker's stubborn insistence that the Indians conform to the white man's way of life. Caught up in the middle of this conflict...

In late nineteenth-century Colorado, Elk Dress Girl, sister of Ute chief Ouray, is captured by Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors, rescued by the white "enemy" and finally returned to her home. Includes historical notes.