War Relic

Mackey Murdock, a writer of Western fiction, follows a man whose nickname, Bones, comes from a past spent gathering buffalo bones across the plains. It is 1881, yet he still carries memories of fighting at Chancellorsville eighteen years earlier. His cousin Wade has just built a large ranch nearby, and Bones feels bound by a duty to guard the Malone family, a duty he cannot shake. To move forward he must face both the old war and the trouble of the present, especially his strained bond with Wade and his marriage to Sassy, the woman he once loved.