Inspired by famed philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Will Andrews drops out of Harvard in 1870 to discover his relation to nature. Eventually drifting to the small Kansas town of Butcher's Crossing, Will befriends a poacher and joins a hunting caravan. However, when he is turned off by the senseless slaughtering of animals, he returns to Butcher's Crossing a changed man.
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