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Toby Holt's new mission draws him perilously close to the West's most powerful criminal mastermind, as outlaws and gentlemen struggle for control of the fertile lands along the Mississippi River and the colorful post-Civil War city of New Orleans.

When Clay Holt returns to the Ohio Valley after traveling with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, he sparks a blood feud with the Garwood clan. Tensions have been fueled in his absence by Josie Garwood's claims about a romantic encounter. Holt and his brother, Jefferson, are forced to flee, heading out West once again.

With the deep wounds of the Civil War freshly healed, America's bravest ride westward to unite the continent into one great nation. Toby Holt, son of the legendary wagonmaster Whip Holt, courageously accepts a presidential mandate to take the Northwest Railroad into hazardous Montana Territory.

In 1837, a fiery young widow, Claudia Humphries, and a bold wagon master, Sam Brentwood, discover that it is their destiny to command the first leg of the remarkable journey to Independence, Missouri. Traveling under secret orders from President Andrew Jackson, Brentwood's task is to win a desperate race against England and Russia in order to bring the promised land of the Pacific Northwest under the American flag.

Virginia City, 1861. As thousands of fortune-seekers descend on the silver-rich boomtown hoping to cash in on the Comstock Lode, a very different cause unites the ranks of courageous soldiers in the coming Civil War - the supreme battle for America's future.

While Clay and his band lead an expedition up the Yellowstone River, brother Jeff Holt heads back east on a treacherous quest ; impetuous young cousin Ned takes to the high seas ; and in the east, Melissa Holt struggles against the unscrupulous business man who means to have her.

An unqueanchable thirst for adventure and the promise of easy riches brought them to the muddy waters of the mighty Missouri River. Its majestic steamboats offered a new way West for pioneers and traders, gamblers and thieves, proper young ladies and dance hall girls.

Returning from the Civil War, wounded hero Toby Holt rides west to claim a homestead in the vast Washington timberland. There he finds a seductive courtesan and ruthless profiteers scheming to take over his property.

Valor and devotion ride side by side with intrigue and bitter rivalry. Wagon master Whip Holt is desired by two women -- his wife, and Cathy van Ayl Blake, who is married to the supreme commander of the American forces in the Oregon Territory.

As a weary band of pioneers makes its way by wagon train across the Great Plains, romance blossoms between wagon scout Whip Holt and the beautiful Indian maiden, La-ena.