In this the fourth and final book of the saga we find out what was in the wagons that came with the herd of cattle that Will, Esther, Jed, Nell, Dawn, and Gus and Isaac purchased. We find the family homesteading their land, dealing with the coming railroad. Jed is tracked down by an outlaw from his past as a marshal, Nell is wounded, little Dawn has a brush with death when some rustlers try to take the new heard, and more in this closing chapter of their adventures on the American frontier.