James Gerber loses his touch with family life when three people take his family away from him through greed for money. James is driven to bringing the men to justice but lost his identity and memory of his loved ones. Under his new found identity he carves his life from the west during the early 1800's, and becomes successful in a totally new environment, settles to his new life and his old life suddenly becomes visible to him. The story spans almost an entire lifetime of a man who has a driving passion to succeed in what ever he enters into accomplishing .From gentleman importer to gunslinger and back to making sour mash whiskey, his new identity makes him someone to envy.