In 1861, Rusty Shannon, whose family was killed by a Comanche war party twenty years earlier, rides out from the family homestead to join a company of Texas volunteers dedicated to protecting settlers against Indian raids.

Recalling his early life as a young cowboy, sixty-two-year-old Madison Carter remembers his first love: her name was Estrella O'Sullivan, and he met her the summer he turned sixteen back in 1873. The summer of 1873 marked Madison's last drive up what is now called the Chisholm Trail. It was the first time he tasted oysters and the only time he pinned on a badge. It was the summer of longhorns, miserable heat, friendship and betrayal, and murder....

The only riches Texans has left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives. Set on rescuing their old friend Clay Duval who is trapped inside war-torn Mexico, Gill and Van Austin, nephews of Texas founder Stephen Austin,...

Major James Brionne had brought Dave Allard to trial for murder, but his brothers returned to settle the score four years later. Brionne and his son headed West to start a new life knowing there would be another showdown.

Tom Chantry came from the East to buy cattle and get them to the railroad. He was a peaceful man, but when a group of local outlaws mistook him for a victim, there was lead to pay.

Two Hawks, a once proud Comanche warrior defeated in battle is now living a quiet life of desperation on the reservation at Fort Smith, Arkansas. When word of Two Hawkss activity reaches Federal Judge Isaac Parker in Fort Smith, whose jurisdiction includes the reservation, he sends for the reservation Chief of Police Emmet Youngblood.

Virginia City, 1861. As thousands of fortune-seekers descend on the silver-rich boomtown hoping to cash in on the Comstock Lode, a very different cause unites the ranks of courageous soldiers in the coming Civil War: the supreme battle for America's future. Major General Lee Blake is assigned the treacherous task of transporting silver to the Union troops in Missouri, while enemies plot to sabotage his mission. By his side are some of the bravest...

Confederate prisoner Jonah Hook gains release by agreeing to serve the Union for a year fighting Indians on the frontier, but his trials are far from over when he returns to his Missouri farm only to learn his family has been kidnapped by a band of depraved Mormons.

Captain Jack Starr, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, tries to start a life in Lost Dog Creek, Texas, and has his dreams challenged by Hiram Sawyer, who has plans for the same woman and land sought after by Jack.