Edgar Allan Poe is at death's door. He, Richard Burton, and their companions lie imprisoned in the cells of the Madman Pratt as he prepares to launch his air-ship fleet to bombard the Great Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Sam Clemens and Brigham Young race across the Salt Lake Valley in the carriage of a Mexican Strider, desperate to get out the message that Young is not dead, and the victim of a coup. War threatens; battle erupts; the phlogiston guns begin to fire. Can the heroes avert disaster, and will any of them survive? Teancum is Part the Fourth of City of the Saints, a four-part steampunk gonzo action adventure tale.