"In 1882, less than ten years after the Northern Pacific Railroad established a terminus on Commencement Bay and helped create a city called New Tacoma, the community is thriving. Stores, stables, a new hospital, and the beginnings of a hotel to rival San Franciscos Cliff House are going up. In town, horse-drawn street cars are pulled on gravel roads, and there is even the beginning of a new telephone system. In Nell Tanquists opinion, the town has...

Cutthroat competition between railroad companies to lay track through the Royal Gorge Territory is threatening to escalate into all-out war. If one man can bring peace, it's half-Lakota lawman, Joshua Strongheart.