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"Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy. The nation was still healing from the War Between the...
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Red Ryan volume 5
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"Riding shotgun, Red Ryan leads a doomed stagecoach of the damned on the longest, deadliest journey of his life ... 5 passengers. 400 miles. 1,000 ways to die. According to local legend, the stagecoach known as the Gray Ghost is either haunted, cursed, or just plain unlucky. Each of its last three drivers and three more riding shotgun came to a violent, bloody end. And now it's Red Ryan's turn to guard five foolhardy passengers on the stage's next-and...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 37
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Nancy and her friends find a hidden, perplexing message, in an old stagecoach as they search for a treasure hidden many years ago and it leads them on an unusual adventure.
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"Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town--in a thunder storm--and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot--and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Buttons can't...
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"Sammy Gregg heads west where fortunes are made with the goal of raising $15,000 in six months and returning to marry his childhood sweetheart. With frail physique and knowing nothing of fighting, guns, or horses, he sees an opportunity in the tough town of Munson, but it means going up against the toughest man in town"--
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Red Ryan is one of the fastest guns in the West. But this time, he's in for the longest, hardest ride of his life. Where danger lurks around every turn--and all roads lead to hell . . . Gold. Silver. Cold hard cash. Stagecoach guard Red Ryan and his driver Buttons Muldoon have ridden shotgun on some pretty valuable cargo in their day. But they're about to learn--the hard way--that the most dangerous cargo of all is human. They've been hired to escort...
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""The feud that started over a cattleman's decision to start charging a toll on the road that crosses his land in Winchester, Colorado, begins to escalate when the local stage line hires a professional gunfighter to back up the stage's refusal to pay. Deputy Ethan MacCallister, the former sheriff and father-in-law to the newly elected sheriff, is tasked with keeping the peace while helping Sheriff John Klinger learn what it takes to be an effective...
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"Cam Sutton escorts Mary Bishop and her two young daughters on the long journey back to Cheyenne carrying the gold they discovered left by her murdered husband. With the threat of bandits constantly looming, and a greedy, cold-blooded killer on their trail, the road is even more treacherous than Cam anticipated"--
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[2019]
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Jacqueline Rivers manages a Pony Express station in 1860 Utah territory after her father’s death. There are daily stresses placed on her in this unconventional role — and now a government official is asking her to sniff out counterfeiters. When Elijah Johnson passes through on the stage while on an exhausting quest to find his boss’s heir, he doesn’t want to leave the beguiling station manager. In fact, he may never leave...
11) The iron jehu
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""After ten years as the 'jehu' or driver for the stage line, Sam Remington is about to make his last trip with a new driver. One of his passengers will be Judge J.D. Longwell, known as the Hanging Judge. When a gang takes after the stage dead set on revenge, it falls to Sam to bring the stage through treacherous Skull Pass with all passengers alive"-Provided by publisher"--
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Red Ryan volume 1
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Gale, Cengage Learning
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[2019].
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Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
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Red Ryan volume 4
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Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
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2021.
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"It starts with an unusual request: "On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women." No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks-until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad-dog killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare...
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American Girl
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[2014]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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On a three-day stagecoach ride to the big city of Albany, during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Caroline is fascinated by the other travelers, including a charming magician and a beautiful young woman with a sad past, but when Caroline's important package for her father disappears, she must unmask a thief.
16) Stage to nowhere
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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2024.
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The sheriff of Tumbleweed took an instant dislike to Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos. They looked like trouble to him. So he gave them one-way tickets for the next stage out to Flintlock. The minute it left town, the stagecoach became a target. Notorious outlaw Jack Savage, freshly arrested, was being escorted to Flintlock by a marshal. But Savage's gang had other ideas. They planned to stop the stage and rescue him - even if they had to kill everyone...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2019.
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"On a lively night at the Victory saloon in Trinidad, New Mexico, Sheriff Caleb York interrupts his poker game to settle a minor dust-up that raises the stakes into major trouble. The wounded miscreant he ushers to the hoosegow spills the secret behind the mysterious disappearance of a certain stage coach. Bound for Denver, the stage carried three important passengers-beautiful ranch owner Willa Cullen, lovely temptress Rita Filley, and wealthy banker...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2023.
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"Jasper Duncan's stagecoach is the fastest one in California; at least that's what he tells folks looking for a ride between the Stanislaus mines and Sonora. But he needs a windfall of cash to stay in business, and he needs to stay in business to continue his hunt for the outlaw Alec Casey, who murdered Jasper's father. He's learned Casey has a base of operations in the Stanislaus woods and he's determined to find it. An unexpected solution presents...
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