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In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon.

Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship.

An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army.

George Washington McLintock, “GW” to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory.

As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse.

Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him.

Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die.

Following Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles.

Rio Grande takes place after the Civil War when the Union turned their attention towards the Apaches.