With a dream of building a ranching empire in Montana, Nelson Story set off on one of the most extraordinary journeys in frontier history. By his side was a bunch of misfits and renegades - hard-fighting, war-bitten Texans with nothing to lose. On his tail was the worst kind of enemy - brutal outlaws fixing to bleed his trail drive dry. Pushing his way through four harsh territories and three brutal seasons, Story would defy the Union Army, get a hold of a hundred Remingtons, and take on a thousand riled-up Sioux warriors, before he reached Virginia City - and came face-to-face with the man who wanted him dead...