A planet in the Delphic Expanse where the descendants of humans abducted from the American West in the 1860s still live as frontier townsfolk, holding the remaining Skagarans in subjection.
The colony is the setting of North Star. Enterprise finds some six thousand humans living in settlements that look exactly like towns of the old American frontier, complete with horses, revolvers and a saloon.
Their ancestors were seized by the Skagarans three centuries earlier to serve as labourers on a new colony. The humans rose up, destroyed the Skagaran ship and reversed the order of things. Ever since, the Skagarans, contemptuously called Skags, have been forbidden schooling and property.
Archer goes into town in period dress and meets Bethany, a teacher who secretly gives lessons to Skagaran children, the fair-minded Sheriff MacReady and his violent deputy, Bennings. After a gunfight in the main street Archer reveals where he comes from and promises that Earth will return for its lost people.