Panther Burn, exiled from his Northern Cheyenne tribe, senses war on the horizon as he sadly watches his Suothern Cheyenne brothers abandon their anscestral customs and become slaves to the culture of the white men. Jubal Bragg, haunted by an Indian ambush, leads a vicious band of frontier militia men. When a sequence of malevolent events brings these two men face to face, they engage in a tragic struggle over the lands of the western frontier.