Two men, completely different in character and background sit down to play poker in the winter of 1844 in the Red Rooster Saloon in St. Louis. With the turn of a card, their destinies merge in an exciting tale of intrigue, romance, pathos, violence and danger, as emigrants bound for glory or dishonor on the Oregon Trail. JAMES MORGAN, once a hard-working, reliable farmer in Illinois abandons his wife and farm, takes his son and daughter and travels...