Season 1, Episode Number 1 (Part 1)
Released: 1979-05-15
Runtime: 120 minutes
Three brothers (Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage) encounter rustlers and gunslingers on the Texas and New Mexico frontier. Part 1 of two. Rountree: Ben Johnson. Tom Sunday: Glenn Ford. Ma Sackett: Mercedes McCambridge.
A traditional sagebrush saga based on two novels ("Sackett" and "The Daybreakers") by Louis L'Amour. It focuses on the three Sackett brothers in New Mexico after the Civil War, seeking their fortunes, avenging a family killing, driving cattle, and fighting for law and order.
