The Big Valley*, is a tie in book, to the series The Big Valley, starring Lee Majors, Linda Evans, Richard Long, Peter Breck and Barbra Stanwyck. The series was about a ranching family named the Barkleys, who lived in Stockton, CA in the late 1800's. The Big Valley series showed what it was like to have a loving family, and it also expressed good morals. While the Barkleys were one of the leading ranch families at the time, they never forgot about one another in difficult times. Weather it was a flood, bullet wound, or earthquake, the Barkleys were always there for each other.