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 Missouri to travel with Whip Holt's train and perhaps win his heart.

Toby Holt, a wounded Civil War veteran, moves West to claim a homestead in Washington, disastrously marries a scheming woman, and encounters profiteers eager to steal his land.

Unflagging courage took them through the valleys of the Badlands to the vast prairies of fertile, new territory. The promise of endless fields of golden wheat, great herds of prime beef cattle, fabulous empires built from railroads and mines lured the ambitious and the brave to the uncharted country. But war cries soon echoed across the plains as mighty red nations united in a pact of blood to fight the newcomers for their sacred hunting grounds....

In the fateful years following the Civil War, a shattered nation comes together to rebuild the dream that first lured them westward - the dream of freedom. Across the snowy mountains and grassy plains, America's best and bravest seek out their fortunes in a land too large and too wild to be tamed by one generation. Toby Holt, son of the legendary wagonmaster Whip Holt, courageously accepts a presidential mandate to extend the Northwest Railroad across...

Of all the outlaws in the American Southwest, none were as cruel or as deadly as the comancheros. Driven by a lust for cruelty and gold, they blazed a trail of terror across the sun-baked desert, striking fear in the hearts of settlers, natives, and Mexicans alike. Only one man, Toby Holt - son of the West's legendary trailblazer Whip Holt - would dare to enter this no-man's land to infiltrate the vicious gang. But America's close-up fight for freedom...

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. Major General Lee Blake is assigned the treacherous task of transporting silver to the Union troops in Missouri, while enemies plot to sabotage his mission. By his side are some of the bravest...