Volume One, Book One is a man's account of his boyhood journey from Southwest Georgia to Atlanta and back to bring his wounded father home from the fighting there in 1864 and taking him to be doctored on by the old Indian-trained healer at Radium Springs just south of Albany, Georgia.
Book Two takes place mostly in Utah in 1871-72 where he tells of his adventures and life among the Ute Indians in the mountains north of Salt Lake City.