内容简介：
Filled with grief, young Patrick took to the trail leaving behind the Montana Territory and the burning memories of death and destruction, daring an encounter with the savage Indians that in one selfish act had taken away his family and the desire to live. A year in Kansas City with Mr. Hastings at the stables brought acceptance of the past. Healed and ready to return to Montana and the homestead, he hired out to Mrs. Wilkes and her daughter, Jeanna, to take them to Fort Bridger in the Wyoming Territory. He found on the long trek across the barren desert the destructive force of revenge and love for Jeanna, who was promised to another. Six years of building the homestead and a cache of gold dust brought only lonely discontentment and his return to the Wyoming Territory for his desired love that only lived in his heart and imagination.