A pioneer settler and his two sons fighting to keep their hard-won cattle land in the lawless territory of California during the closing years of last century.

Jelly is badly mauled by a cougar and to save his life Murdoch and Scott must find medical aid quickly. But in the nearest town they find that the only doctor is behind bars accused of being a dangerous phoney. Just how dangerous they have yet to discover...
There's a touch of romance about the settings for the Lancer stories. They are largely filmed on the 23,000-acre estate Rancho San Carlos, created in California by a wealthy Englishman in the 1920s. He lived there in baronial style stocking the acres with wild boar imported from Russia which were hunted by stars like Clark Gable, Ward Bond, and Robert Taylor.