Jack DeLong and his lifelong friend Caleb Mensa are now Buffalo Hunters after mustering out of the Army shortly before the start of The Civil War. They're doing quite well; selling Buffalo hides, when they run into Rose Crenshaw. Rose is the widow of Fred Crenshaw - one of their mutual friends who has since passed away. Rose and Fred owned a saloon together in New Orleans; and before her husband died... They put up the money for a gambler who was...