When a young girl named Clara is taken by hostile riders, the only man with the skill — and the will — to track her is Neal Doleson, a quiet loner with a reputation for finding the lost and facing the dangers other men avoid.
In the quiet town of Sundown Ridge, where the hot sun scorches the earth and the people carry the grit of the West in their souls, a peacekeeper stands tall.
In the spring of 1885, when horse prices reach an all-time high due to government purchases of horses for the cavalry, wealthy Colorado rancher, Maxwell Jax, decided to organize a wild horse roundup in the canyon lands of the Utah Territory.
In 1878, after a tough winter, Lane Jackson decides to give up cattle ranching and give prospecting a try on his brother's mining claim near Virginia City, Nevada.
In the spring of 1878 a handful of ranchers from the Wyoming Territory pool their money and entrusted it to fellow rancher, Gilbert Mack, to buy cattle in Denver and then drive the herd north to the small town of Recluse.
In 1887 Texas rancher, Peyton Masters, better known as "e;Punch"e; by his friends and fellow ranchers along the Pecos River because of his tendencies to settle arguments with his fists, is about to drive three hundred head of cattle from his ranch on the Pecos River to the railhead in Odessa.