"After fleeing Virginia, Temperance Tucker's family established an inn on the Shawnee River. It's a welcome way station for settlers and frontiersmen traveling through the wild Cumberland region of Kentucke -- men like Sion Morgan, a Virginia surveyor who arrives with his crew looking for an experienced guide. When Tempe appears, Sion balks. He certainly didn't expect a woman. But before long he must admit that her skill in the wilderness rivals his...

Zane Grey's first historical western is the story of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across the plains and through the mountains and deserts to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah. Brilliant civil engineer Warren Neale, sided by Texas gunfighter and friend Larry Red King, are constantly confronted with construction problems, lawlessness, corruption, and the danger of Indian attacks.