One summer, Bob Woolf and his men came after Bill Allen with the intention of killing him in his home in Kansas. Bill and his wife died of smallpox before this happened, but Woolf set fire to their house and property unaware that the pair was already dead. Their young daughter, Nellie, escaped from the blaze, but swore to get her revenge on Woolf. She disappeared into the wilderness for five years, where she learned to survive on her own. She became a scout and left a trail of dead outlaws in her wake.