A beautiful Apache maiden follows the mysterious young man who has come to teach her people to respect "all things great and small" and becomes his wife.
Introduces the life of Sacagawea, from early childhood as part of the Shoshone tribe through her days guiding the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American wilderness, and speculates on her life after that adventure.
Ben and his family escape from their slave-owner and go to Florida, where they join other black families who are living with the Seminole Indians and help them fight to keep their lands.
"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--Provided by publisher.