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US Army Major David Keller was already identified as one of those leaders who would one day become a general. A West Point graduate with six combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was the consummate professional soldier - until a roadside bomb in Afghanistan took his legs. Angry, grieving, and carrying a loaded gun, David returns home to mend a few fences. Then, he would end his wheelchair-bound agony by taking his own life. But his family, community, and a woman, Maggie McCall - someone he tried to forget - begin to show him otherwise.

1871—Manistee County, Michigan. The lumber industry is the predominant and most powerful business in Northern Michigan and is used to doing whatever it wants to do, wherever it wants. It is trampling on the rights of a small group of homesteaders whose small 80-acre farms surround Portage Lake. A dam is used to operate a water wheel-driven sawmill, and when the dam's gates are closed, Portage Lake floods the homesteaders' otherwise tillable land. The Cut tells the David and Goliath story of the farmers' resolve to overcome Big Lumber's abuse.