It had averaged eight miles an hour on its climb toward Yellowhead Pass and the end of steel.

Old Yellowhead JohnTête Jaune, they called himdied years before that, and no one knows where his grave is.

"There's a mountain in the Saw Tooth Range, twelve miles from Tête Jaunea mountain with the prettiest basin you ever saw at the foot of it, with a lake no bigger than this camp, and an old cabin which Yellowhead himself must have built fifty years ago.