In 1865 Arizona Territory an Apache band leader saves a 6 year old white settler boy, adopts him, and raises him as an Apache. The boy - known as Pale Horse among the Apache, grows to be a respected leader of his band, clan, tribe and other tribes. He witnesses the destruction of the Apache Nation as a free people. Yet he lives on - not as a white man, but as an Apache warrior and leader - still free after the end of the last free Americans.