Chronicles a multi-faceted, 15-year span of pre-and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American west.

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Native Americans, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

A nameless drifter dons a postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America.

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.