"When a single wolf howls and none answers you must listen and I will be with you..."

It was Standing All Night, oldest and wisest of all his tribe, who gave help and guidance to Little Bear when the young Cheyenne needed it most. Standing All Night knew why Little Bear would not smoke the war pipe, why he felt different from his fellows, why the battles which lay before him would not be fought on the warpath. And it was the old one's counsel which brought Little Bear to the Canyon, where he was to learn the hardest lesson of his life...