Idaho sheep rancher Chas McPherson, son of a widely disliked fire-and-brimstone preacher now suffering with Parkinson's disease, finds himself the target of an arson investigation after the home of the town's only Muslim family is burned down.
Gabriel Guttman retreats to his childhood home in southwest Montana to try and regain some of the memory he lost in a suicide attempt and to deal with the pain of his activities while a soldier in Korea.
Nevada sheep rancher Sabine Eckleberry struggles to put his life back together after his wife leaves him, his son tries to take over the ranch, and his daughter asks Sabine to find her a husband.
Sheep rancher Pete Lorda, his family, and his workers struggle to keep the ranch going when an epidemic of rabies, started when a rabid bat bit a roving coyote, infects the animals and people on the Carson City homestead.
