UP FROM THE BEND starts in Murphyville, Texas, and ends in Sunrise, Colorado. Murphyville, Texas - In May 1883, range grass is becoming scarce. Charles Stockett, owner of the Bar CS outside of Murphyville, and his foreman, Ed Vargas, decide to sell the ranch and drive their herd north through west Texas into New Mexico and possibly all the way to Colorado looking for better range. Sunrise, Colorado - Stockett and his foreman find the range they're looking for in southeastern Colorado, northeast of the town of Sunrise. Stockett purchases a valley for a new ranch at gunpoint from homesteaders. Once settled in his new ranch, his hands begin rustling cattle from surrounding ranches. The new Sunrise town marshal and his deputies have to deal with Stockett and the missing cattle.