After driving cattle north from California, Dylan Bailey heads alone through Wyoming and Nevada in search of new opportunities. A stop in a Utah settlement brings him into conflict with a powerful cattleman whose influence reaches beyond his own ranch. Wounded and isolated, Dylan discovers that the dispute is not one he can leave behind simply by moving on.
The story places the Bailey family inside the post-Civil War cattle economy, where long drives, open grazing and weak local law create both opportunity and concentrated private power. Dylan’s survival depends on the network of kin and working relationships built across the West, turning the feud into a test of whether family loyalty can counter a landholder accustomed to controlling men as well as cattle.
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