They roamed the American West in numbers so vast and herds so immense it was thought they would live forever. Until there was just one buffalo left - making its final journey toward extinction. And hunting him was the last of another breed, a man who belonged to another time, a man called... The Hider.

To eighteen-year-old Jeff Curry, the old hider - and his vision of a lone buffalo migrating north - was something of a myth, a ghost from the past stalking a dream. The old man claimed to have tracked the last of the mighty beasts all the way from Arizona to Oregon, where buffalo hadn't been seen in ten years. It was the chance for adventure that Jeff had ached for, but when the two men help an Indian framed for murder, this buffalo hunt turns into a manhunt - and Jeff is one of the prey...