After Ben's death at the hands of the Danites, his family and old partners are bent on revenge and with the help of their Crows, follow the trail of the murderers into the Mormon stronghold. There, the old Mormon assassin, Porter Rockwell, and his henchmen are brought to bay and frontier justice is served out.Then the family goes their own way, with Freddy becoming a Wells Fargo detective, Betty struggling with raising her family, Kills Twice going back to his tribe and Katy continuing to work toward her dream of becoming a doctor. But the Mormon tyrant, Brigham Young, has his own vendetta against the family and Katy, to escape his enmity, embarks on a mission to China to use her medical skills. There she finds herself fighting for her life with Chinese bandits. Each of Ben's adopted family find his teachings stand them in good stead in their own fight for survival. Dave Lloyd is a 4th generation Montanan whose great-grandmother came up the Yellowstone on a steamboat to the head-of-track outside Miles City. She knew and told her family stories of the men and the women who lived at the time. Dave grew up listening to her and his grandmother, the first white baby born in the county, as they reminisced of that era's rowdy times. As a young man, Dave was a working cowboy and became assistant ranch-manager on one of the largest ranches in the state, Western Cattle Company, with hundreds of sections of land and cattle numbering in the thousands. The harsh Montana winters gave Lloyd the incentive to leave the rigorous ranching life and get a higher education. After attending college and becoming an educator, then school superintendent, Lloyd began to write of the early beginnings of the state he loves. He researches his books and tries to make them historically accurate, with their characters true to the times. Now retired, Lloyd and his wife, Donna divide their time between Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and Helena, Montana.