A love story set in the turbulent and chaotic West of 1846, Buffalo Man is a fictional account set against the historically accurate events of the time. Anna Sinclair is a fourteen-year-old Mormon joining the great Mormon migration to the Salt Lake Valley with her family when her father is killed by anti-Mormon raiders. Wes Hamlin is a sixteen-year-old non-Mormon who runs off to the Indian Territories after being accused of the murder. Wes takes an assumed name and partners with a cantankerous trapper named Crocker Sloan who introduces the boy to trapping beaver and accompanies him through a series of adventures including living with the Lakota Indians. The two youngsters, Wes and Anna, have chance encounters over several years and fall deeply in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, can their love ever find fruition? Their story is set in a time of pioneers, mountain men, the Mormon migration and polygamy.