Will Hopkirk was all set to live the rest of his life with Diaglito's White Mountain Apaches, along with Sonseray, the beautiful Apache woman he married. But Diaglito was devastated when Tobias Hatch cold-bloodedly killed his twelve-year-old son, Choate. Nevertheless, Hophirk persuaded the war chief to use the white man's court to give him justice.Diaglito was humiliated and outraged when a not guilty verdict was brought in and vowed that only the spilling of white man's blood would satisfy the terrible wrong done to him and his people.Now Hopkirk was forced to choose where his loyalties lay as the frontier erupted into a rage of violence.