They Rode Good Horses is centered around the unique lives of two young boys whose lives are picked clean of everything they know and love. Set on the stage of America's westward expansion, the boys are left alone to travel the road from childhood to manhood with nothing but their friendship and their determination to survive. By the time they are old men, with the recklessness of youth still in their nature, they embark on one last mission, one grand adventure, where for at least that fleeting moment they are able to recapture that point in time when we are all at our best.