Retired Texas Rangers Gus McRae (Robert Duvall) and Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) are content to live out their remaining years in the town of Lonesome Dove. The good-old-life quickly dissipates when they learn about the incredible opportunities for cattle ranching in Montana so they go on a perilous cattle drive. As the drive goes on it takes on an epic scale ultimately becoming the central event in the lives of all involve