The iron horse

Josiah Wakefield and Dan Sturgis are young civil war veterans, emplyed in the Territory of Bebraska by the Union Pacific Rairooad to hunt down the hired gunmen who are wrecking their supply trains. As robbery is clearly not the motive, someone must by trying slow up the railroad's westward progress. After a vicious firefight on the trackless plains, their continued pursuit takes them to the dissolute city of Omaha where, in the company of their new acquaintance, Bill Hickok, they survive an ambush by paid assassins. Their trouble is only just beginning, and they are to face deadly city marshal, Deke Pritchett, and the perils of being on board an Iron Horse, before a momentous finale. But just whose side is Bill Hickok really on?

Year

2015

Language

English

Series

Linford Western library

Publisher

Thorpe

Editions

2

Pages

288

ISBN

9781444826067

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