Jerome A. Kuntz's novel is set against a background of pioneer Minnesota and the frontier West. September 1876, the James/Younger Gang robs the Northfield, Minnesota bank. Seventeen-year-old Custer Compton, along with his younger brother, Buck, and their father joins his Uncle Roy's posse in pursuit of the surviving outlaws. They journey down the Missouri River and into the Wild West of stagecoaches, buffalo hunters, cowboys and chuck wagons, gun battles, cattle stampedes, and majestic plains Indians. In a story filled with humor and misadventures, Custer uses the power and value of faith and family love, together with the healing hands of strangers and new friends alike to conquer adversity.