Mr. Jackson, an award winning automotive mechanics shop owner, and high strung hypochondriac, has a premonition. With no children of his own to pass the legacy that his grandfather started, he has one last mission to accomplish.
The year was 1887, in a little-known town in Texas situated on the banks of the Brazos River. Brazos was once a quiet and peaceful place to live and raise a family; but that was before the Nate Jones Gang rode in.
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
Jim McNeely thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939 and works his way through the ranks to ultimately become a formidable wildcatter.