An aging cowboy on a hard-luck streak is out of work, out of money and staked out to die in the desert by a gang of ruthless outlaws when he is rescued by a beautiful young woman.

"This expressionistic work is Eugene O'Neill's classic American drama of love, revenge, murder and suicide. Set against the backdrop of a small New England town in the post-Civil War era, O'Neill's saga of family discord fueled by psychological undercurrents is from Aeschylus' "the Oresteia." The end result is one of the American theatre's most shattering epic works." --container. Each episode concludes with an after word by Erich Segal containing...