In Separate Trails it's time for the Cooper Brothers to make some hard choices. Charlie having been injured and over a 1000 miles from his ranch in Wyoming must decide whether to sell Timber Creek or continue to run it absentee leaving it in the hands of his foreman, Buck Miller. Emmett having made amends with his father is now the overseer of the family farm, MorningStar. Between a hard-headed wife, the demands of family life and the running the farm for his aging father, he is at a breaking point. Things must change.