Baseball came west with the pioneers and settlers. Every town and a lot of ranches had a team. The game has a part in this story and one man's fascination with the triple play has a larger part. Young Tucker Beavers plays ball and grows up on the Mountain Beavers Ranch with his best friends, Rance Brown and Lucinda Nealy. When he is fifteen his father gives him a herd of wild cows and his career as a rancher begins. He gathers his cattle with the help of a mysterious cow hand and two brush-popping dogs and helps avert an Apache outbreak by driving cattle to the Mescalero Reservation in spite of a run-in with Lincoln County ruffians. But that is only the beginning of the challenges Tucker will face as a rancher in the wild untamed territory of the desert Southwest...