After a disastrous event, Bill Hawks and his adopted son, Barney West, had pledged to always talk to each other. Somewhere along the trail, events occur and the father son bond goes awry. Can the Wagon Train family and Slim Sherman and Jess Harper knit them back together? This is a crossover story between Laramie and Wagon Train. Will be revised to WT later this summer.

Running into each other while on a particularly lush, fertile trail, the Wagon Train and Rawhide crews decide to team up for a while. The Wagon Master and the Trail Boss agree that their staff will welcome the change, and interact pleasantly with each other...