Young Matt List yearns for adventure. The son of a banker with a prominent but mysterious past, his unique abilities seem wasted as he herds cattle on desolate ranches in the Southwest while collecting debts for his father's bank. It's the dawn of an era when a new power, the United States, led by a dynamic president, begins to exert its military and economic influence on the world stage. It is also a time when gold reigns supreme, creating stable...