The story is a Mid 1800s western. the main plot is a boy is raised by a bigot father who hates Hispanics. The father is killed in a bar fight and the mother remarries a Hispanic man who the boy attacks. the boy is sent to an uncle who owns a ship(name of ship Molly Hernandez -I think)After several years boy comes home and leads cattle drive to save the town and wins th heart of his childhood love -Maria.