In 1870, prospector Tom Jeffords, a former soldier in the Union Army, is summoned to Tucson by Colonel Bernall. Riding through the Arizona territory of the Chiricahua Apache, who have been fighting with the white settlers for ten years, Tom finds an injured fourteen-year-old Chiricahua youth. Tom easily dodges the boy's weak attempt to stab him, then removes some bullets from the boy, who is named Machogee. When Machogee is well enough to travel, he gives Tom a necklace to ward off sickness a...| catalog.afi.com