The Halliday Brand

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.