Jake McClure ends up in the Wyoming Territorial Prison after a fight in which a man dies. He serves his time and when he gets out, he meets a widow who has a ranch, but she doesn't have the wherewithal to run the ranch, sell her cattle or keep up things. Jake McClure takes on the tasks before the worst winter in the history of Wyoming Territory. This is a story of the Great Die-up on the American plains when hundreds of thousands of cattle died in blizzard after blizzard. It's also a love story of two people to find love amid all the hardships of pioneer life. Another exciting novel from R. O. Lane