When the Industrial Revolution needs iron ore to make steel to build America, in set in Northern Minnesota in the 1800's, joseph Rabey is a young man in the 1800's working for a new railroad company that needs a steam locomotive moved to the North Shore of Lake Superior to a new town being built to move iron ore from the "Iron Range" to the expanding steel plants in Pittsburgh and Cleveland Joseph leads the journey across Lake Superior and the new railroad company and town into the future.. must build a new railroad company, build a new city and build America; but when violence, crime, prostitution , he must the rugged weather, crime and politics in order to fight for peace and lead the city.