In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these ""nesters"". In August 1902 Jim Miller, ambushed and murdered Jarrott. Who hired Miller? This crime has never been solved, until now.