Stories based on the legends and lore of Death Valley, California.

When Alex Todd discovers there's money to be made delivering the mail, he starts a subscription mail service and takes letters to the gold camps for miners starving for news from home.

Author Bret Harte arrives in the West, where the colorful residents inspire his story, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."

A man must transport 500 mail-order brides from Boston to the state of Washington.

In 1846, American forces move northward, leaving sparsely manned Los Angeles an inviting target to the Mexicans.