THE PATH LESS TAKEN traces the journey of James 'Buddy' Boyd and his devotion to his upright elder brother whose moral attitudes that are a leading light in young Buddy's development.
The Boyd family arrives at a lonely way station set in the desert and Buddy watches the gradual development of the place from fortress to town. One by one his siblings depart until it is Buddy who is left alone in the town and is obliged to track down his older brother's journey into an ambiguous life as a Texas Ranger on the southern borderland.