Cletus was the first of the Youngblood clan to see the Rocky Mountains and for him, it was love at first sight. Meeting a fur-trapping Mountain Man gave him a reason to stay, and as the market for beaver pelts started to dry up a chance encounter with an Arapahoe Indian changed his life again.
His years with the Arapahoe were happy ones, and when his son was born he was even happier. He spent time teaching him the white man's ways while his Arapahoe friend Little Raven saw that he knew all the Arapahoe ways.
When things were turning bad for the plains Indians, he and Little Raven convinced his son Martin to take his family and move into the white man's world. It was a big step for Martin but he had the years of teachings that his father gave him to fall back on.
Martin took the abuse and name-calling that his Arapahoe blood caused him, but eventually, he gained respect in his community. He and his boy Jimmie were making a success of the 'Little Feather Ranch' until two of Coleman's Raiders gunned him down.
Jimmie vowed to avenge his father and his pursuit of Coleman and his raiders began. It was long and sometimes disappointing, but his Arapahoe blood and a promise to his dead father kept him going. That all changed when a U.S. Marshal convinced him to join them in the same pursuit.