Hannibal Brinks left his boyhood home in Missouri - he was just sixteen years old. He joined a small wagon train headed west. On the way, he met two brothers who were mountain men and traveled to the Rockies with them. After he leaves, the wagon train encounters Arapaho horse thieves and then is attacked by a large number of hostiles. They hold off the Indians for two days until finally the hostiles withdraw. Hannibal makes it...