Fairchild's Passage

Young Ethan Fairchild is a typical pioneer. The twenty-year-old Ohio farmer is heading for Oregon in an ox-drawn covered wagon to make a better life for himself. His childhood friend, David Stuart, is also part of the wagon train. Between the two is beautiful Jessica Thorne, daughter of Manasseh Thorne, the train's strict leader. The pursuit of Jessica's affections turns the young men's friendship into a heated rivalry. With no other way to settle the matter, Fairchild and Stuart ride away from the train to fight for her hand. It is just the moment Thoman Silverhorn has been waiting for. The half-breed gang leader has been observing the train's progress. Though he can't take on the entire train, these two practically throw themselves at him. With his long white hair billowing behind him, and a savage scream boiling from his throat, Silverhorn attacks Fairchild and Stuart. Stuart makes a stand and manages to get away from the Silverhorn gang, but Fairchild's horse is shot out from under him. Fairchild - abandoned, presumed dead, and now on footmust make it back to the wagon train and the woman he loves. And the wagon train rolls on, farther and farther away from Fairchild every day. But Jessica Thorne has a terrible secret to hide: She is carrying Ethan's child. Though wracked with grief over the loss of Ethan, she steels herself to marry David Stuart - to save her baby from her father's wrath. With a stunning twist of fate true to the Old West, Stuart, Fairchild, and Silverhorn all meet up again, but it's a different Fairchild from the man who'd been given up for dead.