Bounty hunter Elias Prosper is as tough a man as the West has produced. But as hard as he is, he has a soft spot for children and women. When a Ute named Painted Bear casts off the ways of the white man and spirits away a Ute boy and a white woman, both of whom Prosper had rescued earlier, the bounty hunter ignores his wifea�TMs pleas to stay home and instead heads into the mountains to hunt down the renegade warrior.