Ned Ladigo married Running Dear. Minutes later she died.

Indians discovered a massacred wagon train. The lone survivor was a naked white youth crying for his dead mother and father.

A locket in the boy's hand, when opened, revealed his name and age—Ned Ladigo, three years old.

Ladigo was accepted as a member of the tribe, and years later he and Running Deer were joined in a tribal marriage that brutally ended when she was murdered. "I must be with her. I must...I cannot live without her." His hand reached for his knife...