Jason Benning was a lost soul after four years of hard fighting for the union. On a lonely road in Missouri after six months of wandering around he meets Gabe Owens who changes his outlook on life and gets him started on his dead friend John's ranch, he had promised to help his wife and daughter keep the horse ranch. When they arrive they meet Emily and his daughter Lilly Ann. Sam Johnson is trying to get the ranch by any means possible but Jason and Gabe are there to stop it. This is a Christmas story of a different sort of a true saga of the old west.