Adventures on the American Frontier

The Joyton family runs a station for the famed Butterfield Stage Line on a mountain pass in southern Arizona Territory. This pleasant, solitary life is disrupted when a stagecoach arrives with a dead man inside. They are told the mysterious man accidentally shot himself. But 14-year-old Drew Joyton suspects foul play. A new family arrives and begins to build a story though there is no town nearby. And a dangerous stranger appears. Then hostile Apaches pin down two wagon drivers headed for the pass. As Drew and his sister Blaze risk their lives to help the wounded men to safety, their family comes together to conquer some of the dangers of this untamed Western frontier. Through it all their commitment to one another and faith in God is tested.

Gabe Young is an orphan. He barely survives in the unforgiving West by working for meals at mining camps and frontier towns. Then in 1860 he gets lost along the Humboldt River in northern Nevada Territory. He meets a girl, who takes him to her parents at a Pony Express station. With them Gabe finds a whole lot more than shelter and a meal. He discovers a father’s provision, a mother’s love, and a young girl’s interest. But most of all, he discovers God’s grace.

Fourteen-year-old Alex Hopewell, oldest son of his widowed mother, believes he is responsible to take care of his family. But nothing is simple. His younger brother Cyrus shirks duties by trying to dream up new-fangled contraptions. A blonde-haired girl complicates his life. And some menacing gunmen hide a mysterious package at the family's bakery. When her husband is killed in a railroad accident, leaving no pension or provision for the future, Daisy Hopewell opens a bakery with her three sons and sells doughnuts in northern Utah Territory in 1869. With the help of friends in the Union Pacific Railroad, Daisy secures a great location for her bakery at Promontory Point. Everyone converging on the Utah plains knows that when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroad lines join, history as well as fortunes will be made. Will that include the Hopewells too?