While staying in a fort with a group of Tennessee settlers seeking refuge from raiding Chickamauga Indians, Chad Rabum learns the importance of tolerance and fair play.
When Chad and his family flee to a fort in the Tennessee wilderness to escape an attack by Chickamauga Indians, the presence of the family of a white renegade who joined the Indians causes additional tensions.
An Indian attack on a fort in the Tennessee wilderness makes young Chad Rabun realize that it is wrong to condemn one person for the misdeeds of another.
