Frontier adventurer and private detective Edward Bonney (1807-1864) tells the story of his hunt for the men responsible for the torture-murder of prominent Illinois pioneer Colonel George Davenport, as well as his efforts to crush the early midwestern criminal enterprise known as the Banditti of the Prairies. Follow Bonney on this dangerous quest, from Rock Island, to Nauvoo and St. Louis - hunting criminals in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.