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Gen. Robert E. Lee has surrendered! Other than a few holdouts, the war is over. Now hundreds of thousands of former soldiers have to try to piece their lives back together in the war scarred nation where hatreds still live.

Ex-Captain Shyler Boedeker, late of the 5th Michigan Cavalry, finds himself footloose and unemployed after four long years of fighting. Accepting an offer for partnership in his ex-sergeant and best friend John Taylor's ranch in Texas, the two head for the Lone Star State. Collecting several former comrades also heading west, they discover that Texans have nothing but hatred for any Yankees, and staying would mean constant fights with their bitter Texas neighbors. So John and Shy decide to gather a herd of cattle and drive them north. Partnering with a former Texas Ranger and a dozen desperate cowboys, they begin a seven hundred mile journey through the raw frontier. Fighting hostile Comanches and outlaws, surviving storms and tornadoes and swollen rivers. Their distrust of each other is further tested when they rescue a beautiful young widow and her son from the Comanches. One woman in a camp of lonely men is a powder keg waiting to blow. And on this frontier, the only law is usually the one a man carries in his holster.