In 1917 a young man left the land where he was born to fight the war to end all wars--to fly planes. And when Steven Cartwright came back from the war he went straight to an isolated cabin in the Rockies where an old man had waited for him and he never strayed from home. Now Cartwright sits with a young woman and tells her the story that Cat Brules, the old medicine man, told him--a story of wild horses and wild men and many other things.