The true story of a young woman who taught Sioux students on the Dakota Frontier in the 1880s, and she grew to love native culture and experienced one adventure after another. But when she married a half-native man, her family disowned her, and the yellow press exploited their marriage as a national scandal. Dime museums, freak shows, and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show – all staples of the late 19th Century culture – followed.