The sweeping saga of America's great expansion and the invincible men and wome who braved the unknown peril of the vast frontier. Ever onward! They came from a young nation's East and West, from around the world--to claim new lands, new loves, new lives.

Toby Holt, son of the legendary wagonmaster Whip Holt, courageously accepts a presidential mandate to extend the Northwest Railroad across the hazardous Montana Territory. But Sioux war drums beat a fearsome warning to stay off their land - while the bloodthirsty Hastings gang launch their own wave of terror. At stake are the lives of Holt and his team, as well as his new bride Clarissa and his first love Beth. At risk is the future of America itself...

Violence ignoted by the gliitter of gold. Men desperate to strike it rich. Families and farms forsaken in a wild rush West to stake a claim. String men and courageous women struggle across an untamed continent to gamble their last dollar in overnight boom towns or die bushwacked by outlaws. Some become valiant fighters in places where six-shooters keep the peace. No risk is too great, no depravity too low--when men catch gold fever and dream of quick...

Virginia City, 1861. Major General Lee Blake must outsmart Confederate saboteurs and British agents in order to guarantee that a Nevada silver shipment safely reaches Union troops in Missouri.