Wounded Civil War veteran Toby Holt goes West to the Washington timberland to claim a homestead and reunite with a wife he barely knows. Commissioned to build a transcontinental railroad from Washington to Montana and beyond, Holt and his men struggle to navigate the rocky peaks ...
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Saga of the first wagon train west toward Oregon begins in Independence, Missouri, and ends when the five hundred brave pioneers reach the great plains of Nebraska. Centers on "Whip" Holt, the ruggedly quiet leader of the caravan and Cathy van Ayl, who leaves her family behind in...
No marshal's badge or sheriff's posse had yet brought law to the sun-drenched adobes of the great American Southwest. White settlers, Indians, and Mexicans trembled in fear under the azure sky of old Albuquerque, as they prayed to God that the cruel renegades called the comancher...