The Northern Pacific buys Custer, too - but for what?

Custer dines with the New York press, and finds out whom Jay Cooke has bought.

A beautiful soprano seduces him, too. Libbie asks him with whom he has slept since their marriage. He tells her. She banishes him.

The Cheyenne are finished, and Libbie sends Custer to New York again to find another career. There, Wall Street begins to seduce him.

Custer gives the squaws back to the Cheyenne, says goodbye to Meyotzi and learns she is pregnant with his child.

The Cheyenne turn over the captured white women.

The Cheyenne do not come in. Custer goes out to look for them, taking Meyotzi. But the Cheyenne have slipped into Texas; Custer does not have enough supplies to follow them. He releases Little Robe who promises to bring them in. After Sheridan goes to Washington, Custer goes after the Cheyenne once more. He finds their head chief, Medicine Arrow, and Meyotzi tells him there are two captive white women in the Cheyenne camp. Custer takes four chiefs prisoner, including Big Head, Dull Knife and Fat Bear, and sends a chief back to the Cheyenne camp with his demand that the white women be released and the Cheyenne turn in to their reservation.

Sheridan sends the captured squaws to Fort Hays, but keeps Mahwissa and Meotzi on hand in case their help is needed with the other Cheyenne. He insists Custer show him the Washita battlefield. There they find Elliott and his men, massacred. Grant is to be sworn in as President, and Sherman promoted to General of the Army. Sheridan hopes to get Sherman's old post, but the Washita slaughter of Cheyenne has stirred up trouble back east. Sheridan must be in Washington to defend himself; before he goes, he warns the rest of the Cheyenne to come in and surrender. Little Robe's band does surrender, on New Year's Eve, telling Sheridan the rest of the Cheyenne are on their way in. Sheridan believes he can safely leave for Washington.