Central Kansas Library System

This is the story of fearless devotion to a hard-won ideal, of betrayal from within and sabotage that reaches as far Britain's and Imperial Russia's shores, of Indian uprising and natural disaster. And above all, it is the story of "Whip" Holt.

Whip Holt leads a caravan of courageous men and women whose determination to carve a new life in the frontier of early-nineteenth-century America is tested by inhospitable terrain, the elements, and hostile Indians.