在这部风尘之子西部片中,印第安人保留地的黑人警察吉普赛在一次搜剿行动中收留了部落酋长的儿子科尔比，把他交给一家白人收养。在异族中长大的科尔比因为天生的印第安人相貌遭受了白人的歧视，当他与白人女孩雷切尔的爱情遭到破坏时，科尔比决定重返部落。
几年之后，当雷切尔找到他的时候，科尔比已经成了印第安酋长“白狼”。吉普赛爱上了黑人女教师，就当黑人警官第一次品尝爱情的甜蜜时，三K党的黑手也慢慢地伸向了他……
雷切尔被议员谢尔比的殷勤追求和富有家世所打动，接受了谢尔比的求婚，这使科尔比伤心欲绝。婚后的雷切尔渐渐察觉到谢尔比的诡异，当她终于认清了丈夫的真实面目，悲剧也不可避免地发生了……
Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. And Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.
蛮荒世界有蛮荒世界的法则。
