El más valiente entre mil

Will Penny es un vaquero veterano que se encarga de vigilar las lindes de un gran rancho. Un día, al regresar a su cabaña en las montañas, descubre que ha sido ocupada por una mujer que se dirigía a Oregón con su hijo para reunirse con su marido, pero que ha sido abandonada por su guía. Incapaz de echarlos en medio del crudo invierno, accede a compartir la cabaña con ellos.

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.