Faraway Blue is the story of Sergeant Moses Williams, a Medal of Honor-winning buffalo soldier. Williams is an ex-slave, a Civil War veteran and now a black horseback fighter in the white man's campaign to eradicate the Indian and occupy his ancient tribal lands. The Ninth Calvary has one assignment: hunting and killing Apaches in the Black Range -- the "faraway blue" mountains of southeastern New Mexico Territory. Williams' particular nemesis is Nana, the old Warm Springs Apache chief who leads his tiny band of followers in strike after strike on mining camps and settlements, then vanishes like a wraith into the trackless hills separating New and Old Mexico.In the maddening cat-and-mouse pursuit, Williams is able to keep his sanity only because of his love for a beautiful young mulatto woman he has rescued from a frontier brothel -- and her love for Moses leads her to take a desperate chance when he marches out for his final meeting with the enemy.