Lydia Sterling, daughter of oil tycoon, Charles Sterling, of Birmingham, Alabama, rebels against her father's destruction of the small prairie town of Crescent, Nebraska. Fleeing years of his domination, she sets out to help the people and the lands he has hurt. Hiding her true identity, she finds a place of service in a small cafe, where she meets the love of her life, Jesse Whitefox. Despite the "tears of the prairie," the couple's souls seem to...