For years, “Big Walter” Huffman had dreamed of becoming Georgia's Director of Public Safety.

Now his big opportunity was at hand. The governor's chief aide said all he had to do was find the body of the governor's college-age son who had been swept into the raging waters of the Tallulah River in North Georgia.

After three days, however, “Big Walter,” armed with all of the body-finding technology the twentieth century had to offer, came up with absolutely nothing. Then one of the locals suggested he talk to an old Indian who lived up on the river.

This is “Big Walter's” story.