This is where the great Lonesome Dove Saga began. In the Texas Republic at a time when three cultures; Anglo, Hispanic and Comanche, were in furious conflict over the same harsh land a young Augustus McCrae (David Arquette) and Woodrow Call (Johnny Lee Miller) are young rangers. Ripe for adventure they head off into dangerous territory with the Texas-Sante Fe expedition under the leadership of land pirate and soldier Caleb Cobb. The rangers suffer at the hands of the treacherous leadership and soon encounter the Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache, Gomez.