In 1853, a young mapmaker heads west from Boston, seeking a route for the first railway to the Pacific. In California, Kit Carson’s half-breed daughter heads east in search of her mother’s Arapaho home. Between them lies a newly forged America seething with seduction, betrayal, violence and most savage nature. But stronger than any of these is love.
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