![]() ![]() ![]() He prefers to wander about, living the life of a free-spirit, rather than be groomed by his father for his future position of patron of the massive, prosperous Rancho Montoya. Manolito Montoya is a man of passion-in his love life, and in his social ideologies. What lady can resist that charming smile, that suave demeanor, the sweet talk! Both are proud and independent in their own ways. ![]() In the scheme of things, both he and his father have a stubborn streak. Blue extends his heart and help to anyone in need. His father feels his talent for drawing is pure foolishness. He is a sensitive artist with a deep respect of life. He charges full steam ahead and is not one to think before he acts.īlue Cannon is Big John’s only son, and the two couldn’t be more different-or more alike! Blue has a gentle, trusting, caring nature, unlike his father who is a strong-willed, if not uncompromising leader. Buck can be quite gullible, falling for elaborate and expensive schemes. Because he’s so connected to his feelings, Blue, often turns to his uncle in times of stress or indecision. He’s generous, a bit immature, and full of heart, and would do anything to defend anyone he feels is being treated unjustly. Unlike his older brother, Buck Cannon, is all emotion under his rough exterior. As tough and single-minded as he is, he struggles with understanding emotions. ![]() Unlike most men of his time, he held no prejudices against Indians, other races or nationalities. John is a fighter, both physically and idealistically. John Cannon promised his dying father he would care for his impetuous younger brother, Buck, and he kept his word, even after John married and had a family of his own. In time, John and Victoria learn to love, trust and respect each other, and together, they defend their land and family. Victoria’s brother, Manolito moves into the Cannon house to keep an eye on his sister, but soon becomes a genuine member of the family. His daughter, Victoria, is single, and marriage to John, joining the two powerful families, would make them a force to be dealt with in the territory. Blue takes his mother’s death hard, especially when the patriarch of the aristocratic Montoya family, Don Sebastian, makes John a proposition he can’t refuse. Then there are his neighbors to the south in Mexico, the Montoya family, who claim the land the Cannons own is rightfully theirs.īig John hires ranch hands and begins to build his business, against all the odds, but as his dream finally comes into being, Annalee is killed in an Indian raid. Annalee, is appalled by the savagery and uncivilized society, and the challenging, new lifestyle only exacerbates the already strained relationship between John and his son Blue. Buck takes to carousing around the nearest town, hanging out at the saloon. The Apaches, with whom John had envisioned a mutually-beneficial relationship, are hostile. He travels to the territory with his wife, Annalee 20-year-old son, Blue and brother, Buck. Though a tough, determined man, John goes into his venture intending to change the prevailing lawless, violent and immoral environment to one of peace, cooperation and respect. In the 1870s, Big John Cannon sets his mind on founding a cattle empire in the most rugged, untamed area of the growing nation’s southwest: the Arizona territory. ![]()
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