Day of Consequence defines a frontier child striving for manhood. Five-year-old Jimmy Longhon, inadvertently shoots Baxter Boreen to death. Only a cowboy like Jimmy would persevere and prevail over the consequences brought on by his escapades and transgressions. He traverses a 113-year labyrinth of uncertainty along the dusty, bygone roads of California. The story culminates in one more act of random kindness to Little Walt, his lifelong antagonist.