- A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
- After finding a vital pass through the Canadian Rockies for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Tom Andrews tells his boss Cornelius Van Horne that he is resigning to marry the girl he loves, Cecille Gautier. From Cecille, Tom learns that fur trader Dirk Rourke fears the coming of the railroad because it threatens his hold on the Indians and other trappers. Tom and Rorke have a bitter fight over Cecille, and Tom asks her to wait for him, as he has to go back and finish his job with the railroad. Aided by Dynamite Dawson, Tom finds evidence of Rourke's work against the railroad construction and almost loses his life when Rourke fires into some crates of dynamite Tom is unloading. The construction camp's doctor, Edith Cabot, gives her own blood in a transfusion to save Tom's life. Cecille, realizing that her father is working with Rourke against the railroad,rides off to warn Tom. Rourke intercepts her and tells her that Tom is in love with the lady doctor, but she bullwhips him and gallops off.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- Tom Andrews is a surveyor and railway construction boss working on laying the Canadian Pacific Railway across Western Canada and through the Rocky Mountains to British Columbia. He's found a pass through the Rockies and the work is continuing though not everyone thinks the railway is a good idea. Among those who are against the building of the CPR is Dirk Rourke, who runs a number of trading posts that will no longer be needed once civilization comes to the West. Rourke's confederates are steeling dynamite and are slowing down construction by blasting away at every opportunity. Tom is engaged to a pretty Métis girl, Cecile, whose father is working with O'Rourke., but he's become attracted to the new female doctor, Edith Cabot, who's arrived with the hospital car. The final part of O'Rourke's plan is to stir up the local Indians to keep the railway from being finished.—garykmcd
- In the late nineteenth century, the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to the Pacific Ocean is a matter of national importance, the westernmost province, British Columbia, threatening succession from the Dominion of Canada otherwise in its isolation from the rest of the union. The most obvious problem is finding a suitable route through the rugged mountainous areas. CPR's General Manager Cornelius Van Horne has hired Tom Andrews as the surveyor to find that appropriate routing, which he is able to do. The announcement of the route and the actual construction only initiate other problems as some do not want to see the railroad constructed. Fur trader Dirk Rourke has convinced many trappers and indigenous peoples that the railroad would bring more people into the region placing pressure on the trapping trade, when in reality Dirk is afraid of what it would do to his own inflated livelihood in the trappers being able to bypass him, the middleman. Tom tries to convince them as much by telling them that he himself plans to settle in the area - he long having courted Cecille Gautier who lives with her family west of Calgary - and would do nothing to ruin his own living environment. The violence that ensues as Dirk and those behind him, who include Cecille's father, do whatever they feel they need, including kill, to stop construction does not sit well with the CPR's field doctor, Edith Cabot, who holds true to the oath to her profession to uphold all life. That belief places her in a conundrum as despite blaming Tom for much of that violence in he believing he needs to quash any violent uprising with an appropriate amount of opposing force, she and Tom start to fall for each other.—Huggo
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