Nathan Cane, is the original owner of O'Boyle's Chop House, the oldest restaurant in New York City. A magazine interview of his life on the day it's being torn down sets in motion a recounting of his colorful life; A life as a restauranteur, a famous detective and silent movie cowboy hero. Nathan's side trip anecdotes and stories include both real historical and fictitious characters in this narrative which spans across the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.