Known to the Indians as the Lone Wanderer, Jim Parker roams the western plains, living among different tribes, trying to forget the loss of his family. But he can not forget where he came from--the twenty-first century. He had been an United States astronaut until a space fog threw him back in time over two hundred years. Now he lives in a time period where only he knows the future. Not only that, but he feels cursed because the space cloud had changed his DNA, and now he can't age. He will be 35 forever, never able to stay in one place without raising suspicion, never able to get close to anyone again, never to have a family, always on the move, traveling wherever the winds of Texas carry him. Then he meets Sam Houston, and a cause to live for.