He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he finds he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life and culture of...He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he finds he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life and culture of a vanished tribe of indians known as bluffdwellers, he takes up residence in the wilderness of the ozark mountians, with only a dog for company and only an atlatl - a primative spear thrower - to provide him with his supper.