Texan Dan Ember returned home from the Civil War to find a rich man's hired guns living on his land. When Ember and his Texas neighbors are offered a small fortune to drive a herd of 10,000 longhorn cattle north to Dodge City, they don't have to think twice. But they haven't counted on attacks by hired outlaws, stampedes, high river crossings, or a confrontation with Quanah Parker's Comanches.