1773-1779 Wiley and James, past market hunters, reunite to act as scouts and spies on the Virginia frontier. After fighting at Point Pleasant in Lord Unmores' War they marry two lively brides and return to their beloved Kentucky as settlers. Here they face angry Indians to whom they are still known as "Le Lupe" and "Blackboy." Wolves howl in the "Dark and Bloody Ground" as families grow to become Kentuckians.