Half-breed scout Troy Price does not need another white woman in his life. The last time he tangled with one, he ended up with a broken heart. But when the steamer arrives, he learns that a cholera epidemic has whittled his party of artists and scientists down to one stubborn female.

Eleanor Hart is the socialite daughter of a wealthy industrialist who is unaccustomed to being thwarted.

Looks like a battle of wills on the Yellowstone.