Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves drawn into a nineteenth-century conflict after three dead men are found on an old battlefield.

Profiles the experiences of twelve women who helped to shape the western territories including Alamo survivor, Juana Navarro Alsbury, Cathy Williams who disguised herself as a man and served with the Thirty-eighth Infantry of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Cummings, New Mexico, and others.