This story is about Bill Donner, a beaver trapping mountain man, his Vizsla dog Boone, and a crazed deranged bad Indian named Stinking Arrow. It's a love story too. Bill meets a beautiful Mexican girl, Maria, in Southern California; hand in hand they build their dream home and orange ranch. It's also a love story between a dog and man, their brotherhood, their days together catching beaver, hunting and fishing, and life with the mountain men. Bill and Boone are making their way to Southern California, quitting the Rocky Mountains to realize Bill's dream of raising oranges. It tells of troubles on the trail going to Southern California, including a love affair with an Indian girl named Morning Dove. Plus, falling in love with a sexy missionary girl named Sarah. This love affair has a sad ending. Later and a couple of years of building their orange ranch, Bill worries about their financial status and decides he must return to the Rocky Mountains to recoup spent monies, but not before Maria becomes pregnant. The return trip to the mountains is one of adventure. He guides a western bound wagon train and becomes involved with a widowed girl. Upon reaching the California gold fields, he takes a girl partner. She is a retired whore and dance hall girl, named Soapy La Rue. Bill discovers gold by the buckets full, making them millionaires. Then on the return trip home to Maria, he guides some lusty Mormon women to Salt Lake City, and has a final run in with Stinking Arrow. The story is full of adventure, tall tales of the Yellowstone, rattlesnakes, Stinking Arrow, trappers, bears, dumb pioneers, lust, and killing of claim jumpers.