In 1867 Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California the Land of the Golden Mountain There he will join his father and uncle In spite of the presence of family Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land And where he expected to see a land of goldfields he sees only vast cold whiteness But Otter s dream is to learn all he can take the technology back to the Middle Kingdom and free China from the Manchu invaders Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life a train for which he would open the Dragon s Gate The Land of the Golden Mountain is not what he d expected In 1867 Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California the Land of the Golden Mountain There he will join his father and uncle In spite of the presence of family Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land And where he expected to see a land of goldfields he sees only vast cold whiteness But Otter s dream is to learn all he can take the technology back to the Middle Kingdom and free China from the Manchu invaders Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life a train for which he would open the Dragon s Gate - from Amzon