Dr. John Brighton and his wife Louise travel to California on a wagon train in 1870, but Louise dies in childbirth in Oklahoma Territory. Dr. Brighton decides to stay in the town of Cherokee Wells and practice medicine, with the help of Mrs. Fitzgerald, an elderly widow who offers to care for his daughter. However, the town is plagued by rival cattleman Cass Dobie and his brother Mel, who stir up trouble and threaten violence when their plans are foiled.
The Oklahoman
A bereaved doctor arrives in a quiet Southwestern town to lay his wife to rest, only to find himself entangled in a web of conflict with ruthless cattle ranchers when he decides to establish a medical practice in the community.
