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It is January 1897.

The clock has hit midnight, and the final edition of the New York Journal has gone to press.

William Randolph Hearst, who runs the newspaper, is still at his desk.

He is on the trail of a high-stakes story that hasn't quite come together yet.

It's then an editor bursts into Hearst's office waving a scrap of paper.

Boss, it's a cable from Ivana.

Frederick Remington.

Finally.

Three months ago, Hearst sent Remington an artist, and Richard Harding Davis, one of his

best reporters, down to Cuba on his private yacht, The Vamousse.

The orders?

Knows around for any sign of an uprising being put down by Spain.

The Spanish have ruled Cuba for centuries, but recently, the Cubans have mounted a series

of armed rebellions.

Their conflict has gotten so bad that Spain sent 150,000 troops to the island to quiet

things down.

All right, laying on me.

You know, it doesn't sound too good.

For what I'm paying them, it better be.

That payment would be $5,000 a month, each, because in Cuba's political drama, Hearst

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