The High Chaparral ...is the bid of a family seeking roots in the newly won West
...is the threat to the new settlers from Mexicans and Indians
...and spells adventure in the Arizona territory of 1870

Big John, overpowered by three escaped convicts, becomes dangerously involved in a case of mistaken identity and is held to ransom by a community of Mexican sheepherders. His fate remains very much in the balance even after the intervention of Buck, Blue, and Manolito.
(Colour)