Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
