Retells the Indian tale of how a young brave, whose sweetheart becomes ill and dies while he is on his first hunt, continues to serenade her grave with his flute.

He was a loner and a brooding man who trusted nothing and no one -- a white man as cunning as any Indian who owned nothing but his horse, his saddle and his guns. He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted. He was Shalako. Now Shalako is determined to cross the bleak Sonora Desert -- the Apaches' killing ground -- alone. On his way, he finds a European hunting party -- and a brave and beautiful young woman -- stranded and defenseless....

Memoir in which the author, cousin and lifelong associate of Geronimo, recalls his years on the warpath with the Apache chief, his time as a prisoner of war in Florida, his education at the Carlisle Indian School, and his return to the reservation.

Draws on Geronimo's own account of his life, traditional historical studies, and the firsthand narratives of warriors who followed him into battle and people who knew him personally to provide a portrait of the personality and great influence of the Apache leader

Chronicles the battles that raged in the Old West between the Apaches and the U.S. Cavalry.

Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.