Jeff, the drug using and pushing, foul mouthed, gang leader who had terrorized Sally and all the girls where she went to school in the city finds her. He attacks Sally, but she is rescued by the ranch hands. After being slightly roughed up he is doused with cow urine and deposited in a pasture with an old range bull. He makes it out, but just barely and tangles with an electric fence on the way. Uncooperative weather, equipment breakdowns and manpower shortages are SOP at most ranches and the Lazy A is no exception.
Neighbor helping neighbor is the way of life.
Alice, the juvenile court judge who allowed Sally to go to the Lazy A visits, falls in love, seduces and eventually marries Big Al. She asks Sally for cooking lessons. Rusty, a homeless youth with a troubled past, who found a home at the Lazy A, tells his life story. Rusty and Sally fall in love and are married in the last chapter, the climax of four romances and consecutive weddings.