In 1916, San Antonio teenager James Edward Pargrew’s growing pains keep him in hot water with his dominating lawyer father, but things change when Daddy Virge, his grandfather, summons the Pargrew clan to summer at his ranch. When Jim Ed clashes with the hired hands, old Virge spins him a tale of returning from the Civil War with his brother Heck to find little peace in Texas. Joined by black ranch hand Old Moze, they headed for Mexico but trouble dogged the trio. Heck won a map in a


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