Grant and Clark Cannon’s father, Dale, left a hardscrabble East Texas farm for the Colorado gold fields in the 1860s. After two years of waiting, their mother left for San Francisco, and the two brothers headed west to find their father. They stumbled on a collection of homesteads that the residents, mostly former slaves, called Freedom Town. They stayed there for several years, thinking Dale was dead. Dale had been shot and robbed but survived three years alone in the mountains with amnesia. The brothers found Dale on a camping trip and brought him back to normalcy. Dale told them where to find large amounts of gold and silver, which later became Cannon Mines. Grant turned his newfound wealth into a large horse ranch west of Denver. Three friends also bought multiple sections of land bordering Grant’s. The small group has to fight to protect their property from claim jumpers, rustlers, thieves, Cuban assassins, wild animals, and Ute horse raiders. This book demonstrates how a man rises from poverty to wealth while maintaining high moral standards.