Mingo, wanted DEAD! Daniel Boone must capture his friend Mingo and bring him to justice before all Kentucky erupts in war. Daniel's friend Yadkin is a trusted friend to all in Booneborough and among the Cherokee. Yadkin had canoed up river and while meeting with a Cherokee trading party when they were ambushed by a Creek war party. Yadkin was found floating down river by Daniel's son Israel. With Cincinnatus removing the slug(bullet) and Rebecca Boone nursing him, he began to pull through....

Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.

Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.

Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.

An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.