Jorie Wyler

Jim Bowie accepts a temporary appointment as a deputy to protect a prisoner from mob violence, who, being son of a French society at odds with Americans is falsely accused of a crime committed by his father.

A white man who was captured by Indians, but eventually earned their respect and married his captor's sister, faces prejudice when he returns home.

Jim Bowie, American frontiersman, and Osceola, Seminole renegade chief, match knife against lance, with complications for Bowie in trying to get Osceola to compromise with the United States over the Seminole's problems of remaining in their ancestral region east of the Mississippi.