Tim Champlin
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Matt Tierney was a rather ordinary young man. His first big assignment for the Chicago Times Herald was the Big Horn and Yellowstone expeditions of General Daniel Buck. He stepped right into one of the most crucial and bitter confrontations between Whites and Indians in the the history of the Territory, and Matt Tierney learned that even an ordinary young man can be a hell of a fighter.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Jay McGraw, an express messenger for Wells Fargo, is on a leave of absence to assist his friend Detective Fred Casey on the Chinatown squad in San Francisco. Casey and his men have been charged with stopping the flow of opium into the Bay City, but they're stumped. They've made some minor arrests, but the major source of the drug keeps eluding them. Then one member of the squad is found murdered, the only clue a medieval war axe found near the body....
4) Flying eagle
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Formats
Description
Jay McGraw's job might not have been too exciting, but it was a steady one. He was a messenger for Wells Fargo, and guarding its famous treasure box was his responsibility. Usually it was a fairly routine business ... but one day trouble came his way. Not long into the run between San Francisco and Chicago, masked bandits blew up a key bridge on the trail. Jay knew right away what they were after. If the bandits had their way, Wells Fargo would...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Four years ago, three men held up a train and made of with thirty thousand dollars in gold. Captured, they refused to trade the gold for lighter sentences. Now the leader, Denson Boyd, has been released, and it's up to ex-railroad detective Marc Charvein to follow him to the treasure. But when Boyd ambushes him and kills his horse, Charvein is stranded in the desert. He stumbles into Lodestar, a mining town abandoned by all but a hermit. But Lodestar...
6) The wild west of Louis L'Amour: an illustrated companion to the frontier fiction of an American icon
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A commemoration of themes and characters found in Louis L'Amour's books. Explores geography of the west, lone heroes, gunfighters, mining and ranching, women, Native Americans, food, and transportation as portrayed in L'Amour's books"--
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Formats
Description
Kansas 1868. Matt Talbot is one of a trio of scouts who are meeting with a Cheyenne chief, Bull Bear. After the meeting, some renegade Cheyennes attack the scouts, killing one and leaving another for dead. Talbot manages to escape in one piece, but he soon learns that making his way out of this now-hostile territory unscathed is only the beginning. Surviving the attack will require more than being physically unharmed, as putting his near-death experience...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Marc Charvein, Wells Fargo express messenger aboard a Southern Pacific train, and his old friend Carlos Sandoval need to find and stop the gang responsible for a series of train robberies. Speculating there is a connection between the gang and hand-minted gold coins being distributed to poor Mexicans by a caped nightrider, the two men set out to investigate. Meanwhile, their mutual friend Lucy Barkley is fired from her job as a Harvey Girl in Los...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Alex Thorne has been enjoying his retirement from the Secret Service by seeing the world. Aboard the City Of Peking, he saves the life of fellow passenger Rudyard Kipling. Thorne immediately suspects that the incident was not an accident. A high regard between the two men leads to friendship. And after another attempt on Kipling's life, Thorne proposes to act as guardian for the British Author -- on his tour of the American West.
13) Cold cache
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Description
Kent Rasmussen is about ti get caught in the middle of a decades-old family feud and hundreds of thousands of dollars in burred treasure. But he doesn't know that when he agrees to safeguard Nellie Newburn as she takes a huge sum of cash back home to her family. He doesn't know anything about a cache of golf buried in New Mexico Territory to fund the confederate government. He doesn't know that over the years, Jesse James and other outlaws added their...
16) Devils' domain
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
There was a reason that people called Andersonville Prison hell on earth. With more than thirty thousand Union soldiers held captive in the worst conditions possible, death and disease were scourges visited on large numbers of them. There was a shortage of food, so it was likely that if the prisoners didn't die of disease, they'd die of starvation -- or the loose cannon of a guard might just decide it was a prisoner's day to die. It was the misfortune...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This was not the first time Gil Ross had been to Virginia City in Nevada Territory. In the spring of 1860 he had gone there as a reporter to write about the new silver strikes. Four years later, he's there as mining engineer to prepare an official report on the potential wealth of the region for the Lincoln Administration. Much had improved, but there were new problems. Stagecoaches were subject to frequent hold-ups by gangs - including the one in...
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