Exempt from Fear

Following the Civil War, our re-united nation was booming; a railroad had stitched it together and men of all kinds flooded west by the thousands. Among them, boys in blue who had dreamed of homesteading, and boys in gray escaping the Souths postwar anarchy. The West was wildjust the place for a generation of restless young men who had survived the most bitter war in the countrys history. It wa...