This is a flashback to Ladd Traeger's pre-Coffeyville days. He has been commissioned supposedly to find a young woman who is the daughter of a Civil War General. However, the assignment turns out to be protecting her and her young son against an assassination attempt by a hit man from an Appalachian clan who are attempting to wipe out completely the line of her husband. On the way between Colorado and Illinois, Ladd passes through Coffeyville, Kansas and happens to see a young waitress in Patty's Diner. The fear that he will never have a wife and a family throws him into the pit of depression.
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