Iron Passage · Book One
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Montana Territory · 1881
Iron Passage
Before the railroad ruled the West, everything moved through the Passage.
Jesse Holladay has spent nearly two decades rising through the Iron Passage Stage and Freight Company. Now, as route superintendent, he is responsible for the crews, stations, livestock, freight, passengers, and contracts that keep much of Montana Territory moving.
But as danger closes around a critical company route, Jesse must protect the people and operation that gave him his life—while the railroad moving west threatens to make their entire world obsolete.
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The West did not move itself.
Before the rails connected the territory, survival depended on the companies willing to cross it.
The Iron Passage Stage and Freight Company carries food, machinery, mail, passengers, payrolls, medicine, and information across Montana Territory. Its stations and crews connect settlements that would otherwise stand alone.
At the center of the operation is Jesse Holladay, a former stable hand who rose through the company to become its route superintendent. As new dangers threaten the Passage from every direction, Jesse must protect the people, routes, and company that gave him his life.
But the greatest threat is not an outlaw or a winter storm. It is the railroad moving steadily west—and the possibility that progress has no place for Iron Passage.
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