Riverboat captain Ezra Paint founds one of the most memorable ranching families in the West when he leaves the dangerous Mississippi during the Civil War to freight through the Dakotas. He marries a young widow who shares the Bible with the very Sioux who often raids his wagons, and he and his wife raise twin sons.  Different as two sides of the same coin, thoughtful Eli and


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