Lanier and his disheveled army announce plans to create their own state. When John offers them higher prices, he and the Chaparral face the wrath of the cattle baron.īuck, Victoria and Manolito return to the Montoya Ranch and become prisoners, with Don Sebastian, of a degraded former Civil War friend of Buck. When John Cannon needs cattle from Mexican ranchers for his Army beef contract, he finds the Mexicans are being forced to sell at cheap prices to a ruthless cattle buyer. Victoria persuades John to send the boys to her father for a bull, but a misunderstanding with Victoria’s father could spell the end of everything.
The future of the ranch is jeopardized when bandits steal a prize bull and breeding stock which Cannon bought with the last of his money. The bad luck and bad decisions with these three amigos is just beginning. Buck enters a poker game and loses the supply money.
When Buck, Manolito, and Billy Blue are sent to Tucson for food, supplies, and boots, they get sidetracked instead by women and song. Now, Cannon must give his son, Billy Blue, the job of secretly trading the hostages. When Captain Dabney fails to rescue the men, but gains Apache hostages, he refuses to make a trade for the soldiers. Three army deserters, who murdered Apaches on Cannon land, are taken prisoner by Indians. When Victoria is exchanged for an injured Apache and is returned to the ranch, she faces two decisions that could dramatically change everything for her. Victoria’s efforts to overcome husband John Cannon’s memory of his first wife are interrupted when Apaches lay siege to their ranch, and she is kidnapped. The land baron insists that John marry his daughter, even if is against her will. Unable to fight both Mexican marauders and the Indians, John makes an agreement with the Mexican land baron taking John’s cattle. John Cannon’s wife is killed during an Apache raid, and Buck, his brother, can’t stop Mexican bandits from rustling cattle. While Brother Buck recruits gun-carrying cowhands, Big John learns of another enemy – a Mexican land baron claims the Cannon property is his. The Army orders the Cannon family to move on, but Big John Cannon won’t budge. The Cannon family struggles to establish a ranch in the Arizona territory of the 1870s.
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