A volatile man with a violent past, Ethan Allen Cord (Lee Horsley) lives alone in the frontier mining town of Paradise, California, until the unexpected arrival of a quartet of kin, the orphaned children of his deceased sister. Though gifted as a gunslinger, Cord possesses little aptitude for raising Claire (Jenny Beck), Joseph (Matthew Newmark), Benjamin (Brian Lando) and George (Michael Patrick Carter), four city kids abruptly transported to a farmhouse in the wilderness. With the help of his best friend - John Taylor (Dehl Berti), an Indian shaman - and stubborn bank owner Amelia Lawson (Sigrid Thornton), Cord discovers his own fatherly instincts as he gradually accepts the responsibilities of parenthood. David Jacobs (Dallas, Knot's Landing) is the creative force behind this authentic Western, set in the 1890s, blending family drama with savage six-gun action.