The Barren Man is a Western in the finest American tradition. It is the story of a man with problems to solve and the desire to do it alone. Only, some folks insist on helping him, and some insist on killing him.
The Barren Man is a story of the painful redemption of a once good but fallen man. It is the story of a member of the Southern gentry cast out of his own society. Abandoned by the North and imprisoned as an undercover Union officer in a war against his homeland, Luke Barren serves eight years in a Texas prison before being released. His home is gone, his family is dead. He is now a man on the edge, and those who get in his way are sorry they ever heard his name—until he gets stuck with a runaway boy and a hard-headed young French widow who refuse to let him hate.
