Laredo plot
Reese Bennett teams up with his younger colleagues Chad Cooper and Joe Riley as a Texas Ranger. Reese is forty and previously served as an army officer during the American Civil War. Chad worked on the border patrol during that war and is originally from New Orleans. He joined the Rangers to track down those who had previously ambushed his colleagues at the Border Patrol. Joe is a good gunman who has been on the wrong side of the law before and wants to gain protection from a sheriff by joining the Rangers.