The Civil War had been fought and slavery was over. But for a black man moving west, freedom was a long, hard fight. By the time they got to Laredo, Miles Partlow and his younger brothers were saddle-sore and weary--and their war had just begun. Rounding up a herd of mavericks, Miles led a trail drive north and into a storm of blood that reached from the frontier to their family home in Missouri. The trail was full of hard choices, but to fight was the hardest call of all.