From pre-Civil War Virginia to the prairies of the far west, this epic follows young Lew Dorset as he journeys in search of his father. Lew’s skill with firearms gets him a job as a hunter with a trader heading onto the prairies to barter with the Indians. There he meets young Chuck Morris, and together they take on a Cheyenne attack party. Finding shelter in a Sioux village, they absorb the native culture. Lew comes to know the great Sioux chieftains,...

In 1845, special agent John Hayward is sent to the Mexican colony of California to search for the missing U.S. consul, he winds up on the trail of a subversive group known as the "phantoms in the night".