Along the way, he becomes romantically involved with a mysterious and beautiful seventeen-year-old girl, who is fighting desperately to evade her murderous, inheritance-hungry relatives.
To all of this is added the stress of Coltrane's efforts to parlay the seventy-five dollars he left the Bluegrass State with into a small fortune, when he is given the opportunity to invest in a herd of Texas longhorns being driven to Kansas. The adventures he experiences along the way are those he will not soon forget.