The Western Trail - Couverture souple

Livre 2 sur 25: The Trail Drive

Compton, Ralph

 
9780312929015: The Western Trail
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0312929013 ISBN 13 : 9780312929015
Editeur : St Martin's Press, 1992

Synopsis

A stubborn band of hard-driving Texans lock horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody battle for an untamed land. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history blazing trail drives. Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys brave over a thousand treacherous miles to drive 2400 head of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. With the help of a Shoshoni Indian tribe and Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they'll wage the most ferocious battle of their lives - to win the right to call the land their own.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A stubborn band of hard-driving Texans lock horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody battle for an untamed land. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn, and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history blazing trail drives. Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys brave over a thousand treacherous miles to drive 2400 head of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. With the help of a Shoshoni Indian tribe and Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they'll wage the most ferocious battle of their lives - to win the right to call the land their own.

Revue de presse

"Lovers of Louis L'Amour-type westerns will welcome a new paperback series written by Ralph Compton."-"-Nashville Banner"
--Nashville Banner

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Éditeur
St Martin's Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0312929013
ISBN 13 
9780312929015
Reliure
Poche
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781250814609: The Western Trail

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  125081460X ISBN 13 :  9781250814609
Editeur : Griffin, 1992
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