In 1910, John Fountain, aged sixteen, a handsome mixed-blood sent by his Indian mother to live among white men, worked for a farmer in Ammon for four years before becoming a homesteader on Bull's Fork. His Indianness created conflicts with the Indian concept living within nature, not changing it, in his relationships with white men. A near seduction freed him from his insecurity with white girls. After two refused proposals, he married his first employer's daughter, but not without further conflict. Drought finally drove him off his homestead, and, at the urging of his wife and her father, into law school. It is at once a story of hardship, joy of accomplishment, friendliness, love and most of all of an adventure into an unknown world.