After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.
Follows the adventures of Texas Rangers Gus and Call as they join an expedition to seize the Mexican territory of Santa Fe and journey home across the Jornada Del Muerto.
August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, the Texas Rangers made famous in "Lonesome Dove," leave their women and the problems of their middle years behind when they join in the pursuit of Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump.
In the late 1870s, young Jim Doolen travels to New Mexico, where he befriends Bill Bonney, who is later known as Billy the Kid, and ends up in the middle of the Lincoln County War.