When Judge Amidon and his son were murdered on their ranch a lot of fingers were raised in the direction of the Native Indians. In such a rising hostile environment Bess, a white orphan boy befriends How, a native Indian boy in spite of losing both his parents in the Indian war of resistance... Will Lillibridge or William Otis Lillibridge was born in Iowa into a prairie community and spent his adult life in Dakota where he worked on a ranch and had the first-hand experience of a farm life. Lillibridge was also a qualified dentist.