Shadow on the land

the long version

Transportation in central Oregon is still by stagecoach and freight wagon, but there's a movement afoot for a people's railroad. Now competing railroad barons James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman both set about building a line there. Their front men, Lee Dawes and Mike Quinn, have always competed for rights-of-way - and women. Attracted to Deborah Haig, Dawes is nettled to see her in an intimate meeting with Quinn. But there's something else about her ...