In 1873 William returned from the war to join his brother John who was the Sheriff in Mason Texas. The place was going through changes where free range ranches were being replaced by homesteads with fences. There have been cattle rustled and the old time German residents don’t trust the new English residents and they don’t trust the Germans. Mobs form and lynch suspected wrong doers. In the midst of this anarchy William homesteads a piece of land, makes it into a working ranch and finds love and eventually peace.