"1865: Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed Amerian West with her family to form their own Irish Catholic Colony. Their new ommunity had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon leaned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year afer their arrival Goldie blames herself for her sister's disappearance....