The vast oil fields of Texas between Abilene and Fort Stockton are referred to by many as The Big Country.
That unexpected meeting would turn into a whirlwind romance with life-long consequences for both of them and also everyone around them..
This is the story about two such people who meet by sheer chance on a late Sunday afternoon at a truck stop in a small town.
People who work hard, play hard, and love hard.
The harsh, unforgiving landscape there creates tough people who are tied closely to the land.
The wind-blown hills of the Big Country can be desert-hot in the summer or bitter-cold in the winter.
The towns, big and small, as different as they may be, they all share two things in common......oil and cattle.
The vast oil fields of Texas between Abilene and Fort Stockton are referred to by many as The Big Country