Missouri! — Dana Fuller Ross

WAGONS WEST
An unquenchable thirst for adventure and the promise of easy riches brought them to the muddy waters of the mighty Missouri River. Its majestic steamboats offered a new way West for pioneers and traders, gamblers and thieves, proper young ladies and dance hall girls ... while along the river bank, war-painted Sioux and ruthless bandits waited in murderous ambush to take the riverboats' wealth and women for their own.

MISSOURI! Where the legendary wagonmaster Whip Holt once gathered his Conestoga wagons for the slow journey west, now railroads race across the land, and steamboats travel the wide "Muddy Water" with new settlers and new dreams. To strong men like Whip Holt's son Toby falls the dangerous job of hunting down rampaging outlaws and Indians. With young army cadet Hank Blake and loyal Chief Running Bear, Holt and his blazing rifle would challenge train robbers and gunrunners... a beautiful lady would become the shameful stakes in a contest between a con man and an Englishman... and a growing nation would fight for its glorious future with the blood and bravery of the extraordinary men and women whose journey westward began at MISSOURI!