In Florida's dusty and rugged long country of the 1920s, a sixteen-year-old boy named Titus Timothy MacRobertson, better known as Tee, is dead set on proving to his father - and to himself - that he's every bit as good a rancher as his brother, Micah. So when Micah picks him to come along on a gruelling cattle drive through the unpredictable Florida wilderness, Tee knows it's his chance to prove that he has true MacRobertson grit.
By trial of storms, stampedes and heart-wrenching tragedy, Tee discovers the strength he always had, and travels the perilous journey into manhood.