Skimmerhorn travels to Texas and meets Nacho, a Mexican cook, who leads him to Poteet. Trail boss R.J Poteet recruits a group ot. cowhands to drive 3.000 cattle from Texas to Colorado across rough territory. 

Store clerk Levi Zendt journeys home back to Pennsylvania. A raging snowstorm turns the Colorado Rockies and prairielands into a sub-arctic hell. Sheriff Dumlre has his first encounter with the Wendells, a family of con-artists.