75,000 U.S. Army troops sit upon Wyoming's border, ready to 'punish' a State defiant of Federal laws that have only pushed the nation deeper into depression. The State's economic miracle is a threat to an Autocratic President Rivera and he will not suffer interference with his plans to Federalize the entire political system. Joshua Stillwater is caught in the middle of this confrontation, trying to decide which commands his loyalty; the State in which he was raised or a Federal government that can imprison him. He has to decide which side he is on for the brewing BATTLE in this Vol II of the State of Mine trilogy.