Savage Indian attacks. A lone, war-crazed Blackfoot stalking them. The courts of Queen Victoria and Russia's Czar plotting to thwart their valiant gamble for the future of a new nation. Bitter winter coming. Yet America;s first wagon train pushes its way westward through the Rockies. Ahead is Oregon, the Promised Land--and the endless miles of hardship and danger, treachery and death that stand between them and their beloved goal.

The hard winter of 1887 changes the lives of the Holt family. Toby Holt must fight to save his new ranch and his son Tim runs off to look for silver in the mines.

Clay Holt goes to Canada in search of an enemy, while his brother Jeff is stalked by a killer in North Carolina.

1898. Remember The Maine! As the nation's headlines scream for revenge, inciting America to war against Spain, newspaper publisher Tim Holt vows to report the story himself from the front line in Cuba. Thousands of miles away, in the frozen Yukon Territory, young Frank Blake seeks his fortune in gold--only to have his dreams shattered and his heart broken before his true destiny becomes clear.