An abrasive older drover, Sam Hargis, befriends a new drover who is equally abrasive, and Sam views the newbie as the son he lost in the Civil War.

After Lissa Hobson's husband dies, the drovers find her and her baby in the wilderness. They take her in but Lissa neglects to tell them that her in-laws are after the baby and will stop at nothing to get it.