Danny Johnston felt nothing but pride as he rode into Waco to join up with the Confederacy. What he got instead was an eight year prison sentence for a killing he didn't commit. He left Huntsville with one goal in mind, not revenge, but to head home to Brianville and live in peace. He would soon find that peace wasn't in the cards, for what he discovered instead was his Ma's grave under a cottonwood tree, and the bloody corpse of the old vaquero ranch hand, Luis, sprawled in front of the homestead. He packed up and left it all behind, deciding it was time to join up with a cattle drive, any cattle drive, and move up Kansas way. It wasn't long into the journey that he happened upon Sarah, her little brother Jedediah, and two bandits in the process of robbing them, or worse. That's when his life could be changing for the better. But not before he would be tested first in ways that only hard times in the West will throw at a man.

The Outlaw Tuck Sutter would see to that.