The story starts at an outdoor wedding. Orrin is going to be marrying Mary Tripp. While the wedding is going on Higginses walks up the road towards the wedding with a gun in hand. Orrin does nothing about it because he is caring more about marring the beautiful young lady in front of him. One of Orrin’s brothers meets Higginses on the road and tells him to stop but Higginses doesn’t stop. Orrin pulls his gun and tells him to stop but he didn’t so Orrin finally shot him. People started screaming and running for their lives. When Tye go home his mom asked him what had happened. Tye told her and she said that he should take the old hoarse and head west. He left with specific instructions to find a place to settle down and send for the rest of the family. On the way he spots a cattle drive and he approaches them and asks if they need any more ranch hands. The ranch hand in charge said yes and one of the other ranch hands thought that he was going to shot Tye but Orrin showed up behind Tye and told the hand to try it. On the drive the other ranch hands get to know Tye and Orrin and began to like them for who they are. On one part of the trail some men road up to Tye and said we are going to be splitting your heard. Tye pulled his gun told them his name and they went around and left them alone for the rest of the day. The foramen asked Tye what went on and Tye said they were going to split the heard but I told them my name and they left. After that the foramen had a lot of respect for Tye and his brother. They would save them a lot of trouble. That’s all that I have read so far and from what I have read this is a very good book. I would recommend it for anybody that likes to read.