After saving a newspaper editor and his wife from three dangerous ranch hands who are in the act of raping her, Red Flame a young Indian war chief instantly becomes famous when the editor publishes his story, including how his murdered Scottish Doctor father and his Apalachee mother met. After returning to his mother's village and finding most of the tribe massacred, he immediately goes in pursuit of the Cavalry troop responsible and kills most of them making him a hero with the Indian nations but a wanted man by the government and all bounty hunters. When an Indian scalp is worth twenty dollars, his has become one thousand. When he is asked by two sisters to help find their missing sister, it takes them into the blood thirsty world of America in the latter eighteen hundreds, where killings, rapes and scalping's are the norm. Where everyone carries a gun and most want to use it.