He was half Apache, half white. As a boy, he had seen his Indian mother gunned down by the hated bluecoats during an attack on his village. Now, years later, here he was, Wade Chisholm, scout for the U.S. Cavalry, alone in Apache country, asked to locate the hostiles - his people - then decide if he had the stomach to lead soldiers in the massacre of another village. But "Longknife" knew the Apaches had already filled the desolate desert. The Apache death chant. Chisholm was as good as dead!

The brutal rape and horrible murder of young Hannah Miller was nearly avenged. Wade Chisholm had already gunned down two of the killers and now he was hard on the trail of the third—Shipley Hart, leader of a small army of cutthroat ex-rebel soldiers. His vengeance leads him to the secret camp of Hart's Raiders where he learns they plan to bushwhack General Ulysses S. Grant. Chisholm knows he should warn Grant—but suddenly he finds himself face to face with the leering Shiply. His gut screams out to settle personal accounts first—and he hopes he'll still be alive to save Grant.

He stood alone between the U. S. Calvery and the Apache! Wade Chisholm has the bearing of a military officer, but moves with the catlike grace of an Apache. He has deep respect for his Apache heritage, yet will raise his rifle against it. He is a man of two worlds, constantly torn by gut loyalties. And when the U. S. Government decrees the Apache must be uprooted from their hunting grounds and moved to reservations, Wade Chisholm is forced to ride into the most important—and dangerous—assignment of his life!

Major Wade Chisholm must decIde if he wants to take a promotion to Lt. Colonel. He will get the NEW RANK if he will take on a new assignment to talk with the rouge Indians in the Texas Panhandle area.He decides to do it to save as man of the Indians as he can from a coming massive attack by the army on all Indians not on reservations. He has to negotiate with the Kiowa, the Comanches and the Cheyenne. He does well with the first two tribes but the renegade Cheyenne threaten to shoot him on sight. How can he get to those thousand Indians and try to persuade them to come to a reservation before the army moves in with a kill only mentality?

Man in Two Camps, Major Wade Chisholm, is called by the army generals to go into the south of Arizona to try to talk the Mountain Tonto Apaches into coming to the reservation at San Carlos, Arizona. They had recently driven a three man army delegation out of their hills. They are living the old way, hunting, raiding roundeye farms and ranches and then dashing back into the high hills for protection. Wade is sent in with twenty Pony Soldiers to confront them, ask them to come to the reservation or face immediate attack. He decides to go in instead in loin cloth and sandals with no weapons to talk to their chief about going to the reservation. He gets into the camp un announced and faces the wrath of an angry tribe. Will he come out a victor or will this be then end of his army scout career and wind up as a half roundeye being fresh meat for the Tonto dogs?

Wade Chisholm is offered a permanent rank promotion if he will sign on with the Army for eight months to work with four bands of renegades and hold- outs in the Texas area. He decides to take the promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and heads into Texas o find the Southern Cheyenne. He gets shot at when he puts out a white flag for a talk. Later they move without notice and Wade has to chase them for a talk with their chief. He also has to cross weapons with bands of Kiowas, Comanches, and Arapahos, before he is sent to Oregon to settle a deadly dispute between two Oregon tribes where fishing for salmon is the big sticking point. The salmon make up a quarter of the tribes winter food supply and Wade is getting ready to take on the two tribes.