#paperback#novel#adventure In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward From his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing Fields of the Civil War to the battle of Little Bighorn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a buglar on President Lincoln’s funeral train, apprentices with the frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer.