Steamboats travel the Missouri River with new settlers. Toby Holt, a young army cadet, and loyal Chief Running Bear challenge outlaws and Indians along the river's banks, and a growing nation fights for its future as settlers continue westward.

They staked their future on the grand open plains of Oklahoma - brave men and women determined to conquer the harshest challenges of a bold frontier. Unscrupulous land dealers, livestock fever, and lawless gunmen threaten not only their way of life but their greatest dreams. Now, with a savage range war brewing, the pioneers have one hope left: Toby Holt, son of the legendary wagonmaster Whip Holt. No man alive has a quicker draw or steadier aim than...

Sam Brentwood's task as the wagonmaster was to win a desperate race against England and Russia, and to bring the great promised land of the Pacific Northwest under the American Flag. --- [Excerpt from back cover.]

After the Civil War, Toby Holt, courageously accepts a presidential mandate to take the Northwest Railroad into Montana Territory. But Sioux Indians and the cold-blooded Hastings gang spread a legacy of terror in his way.

"To vast expanses of virgin forests came hard-drinking lumberjacks and cold-hearted businessmen.  To the prairies lush with grain and hops came German brewers to found an industry on liquid gold and high stakes.  This was the land ready for America's toughest and most daring.  This was a place where Toby Holt - son of legendary wagonmaster Whip Holt - would begin a new fight with his six-shooter and his courage.  But greed was a deadly vice that...

When the Panic of 1837 creates hard times, a dauntless band of pioneering men and women journey from Long Island to Missouri with the hopes of eventually finding a better future in the rich Oregon Territory.

The first wagon train to Oregon country moves slowly across the Great Plains, reaching the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in early autumn. Led by wagon scout 'Whip' Holt, the five-hundred-strong community of courageous men, women, and children prepare for the bitter winter ahead. Among them are dreamers and drifters, foreigners and natives, friends and enemies.