Four brothers leave the family plantation in Virginia for various reasons after the War Between the States. Each of the four end up pinning on the badge of a lawman and starting a new life maintaining order in an untamed land.
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The Cavalier - Noah MacLean, a Pinkerton Detective, moves West working a case. A gritty veteran of Mosby's Raiders, his sense of duty drives him to do what's right. He winds up as the sheriff of Calaveras County in California.
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Lonestar Ranger - Daniel MacLean becomes a Texas Ranger, desiring to bring the man whose bullet killed his wife in a gunfight in Seguin, but finds himself in a land war between a land baron and the Mexican land owners who have worked the land for centuries.
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Prescott - Zeke MacLean is appointed to Fort Whipple in Arizona to assist with the uprising of the Apache and Yavapai. He discovers that someone is raiding local settlements and making it look like the work of the native people. He ends up as the first sheriff of Yavapai County.
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Big Sky Marshal - David MacLean heads West with the dream of being part of a cattle drive. Along the way, he discovers that he has a deep sense of law and order as well as a desire to maintain it, driving him to his destiny as a town marshal in Montana.
