An American adventure story set in the 1950s and 1960s that follows the life of Paul Barrett, a working class kid from Queens, New York, who falls in love with the rodeo at a matinee performance in Madison Square Garden. The story details Paul's freewheeling journey, along with the smooth-talking RJ Christy, and other young boys from New York City who also have big rodeo dreams. They roam New England as hired hands in wild west shows, and travel west in hotel Chevrolet as rodeo competitors in the days of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. It's a life where hard work and perseverance are relentlessly trumped by lady luck in determining Paul's fate, and whether or not he can make his championship bull riding dreams come true.