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Series
Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Stretching across the wild western frontier, the railroad needs guardians like Wells Fargo detective Wolf Stockburn. Known as the Wolf of the Rails, the steely Scotsman is as cold and hard as the tracks he rides -- and those too foolish to fear him will soon lie dead at his feet . . . When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express -- so called because of all the people riding it who have ended up dead -- with a full head of steam, Wolf Stockburn makes...
Author
Series
[Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective] volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well-oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay . . .Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman...
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English
Description
In Grand Coeur, Idaho, the rough-and-tumble place where her father has been called to lead the church, Shannon is not sure where she fits in. Then a critically ill woman arrives, and Shannon knows her place at last: to care for this woman and ease her pain. Matthew takes a job at the Wells Fargo express office in Grand Coeur until he can find the one thing he needs to get back to driving: a wife to care for the his dying sister's boy. God is at work...
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Language
English
Description
"The building of the Transcontinental Railroad is the story of America itself. Full of great dreams--and greater dangers--it required bold vision, back-breaking work, and one brave man to stop the baddest of the bad men every step of the way. His name is Wolf Stockburn, railroad detective... NEXT STOP, HELL. ALL ABOARD! The killers are organized--and ruthless. One by one, they slaughter a railroad crew at Hell's Jaw Pass in Wyoming Territory. No survivors....
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English
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Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San...
Author
Series
Wells Fargo Trail volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Civil War veteran Zachary Cobb, now working as an undercover agent for Wells Fargo, is led into a confrontation with powerful underworld figures when he sets out to investigate a series of payroll holdups in the Mohave Desert.
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Language
English
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Description
The phrase "riding shotgun" was no game to the men who guarded Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains in the Western frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns and an occasional revolver, these men guarded valuable cargo through lawless terrain--battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. Wells Fargo always had courageous men to protect its treasure, and their bravery and ingenuity make this book a...
10) The desert hawks
Author
Series
Wells Fargo Trail volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Out of the Great American West, Book 5 in THE WELLS FARGO TRAIL Set in the 1870s in the desert of northern Arizona, The Desert Hawks opens with an action-filled story guaranteed to hold the interest of any Western buff. This new book entwines mystery and suspense in the lives of villains, Indians, innocent bystanders, and Zachary Cobb. Each has made choices to survive the challenges of a harsh frontier, and each must face the consequences in a tale...
Publisher
Distributed by Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The Wells Fargo Stage Line played a heroic role in the history of the West, ferrying passengers and cargo from Missouri to Califormia over a harsh and sometimes hostile land. In Tales of Wells Fargo, Agent Hardie faced weekly tests of will and character, as he protected the stage coaches from outlaws, bandits and Indian raiders, seeing them safely through their journey.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1936
Language
English
Description
Treasure Express: Epic Days of the Wells Fargo, first published in 1938, is an exciting account of the heady early days of the Wells Fargo offices and its paddlewheel, stagecoach, and express services. The book chronicles the story of Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) who incorporated Wells, Fargo & Company in California in 1852 to provide express services from the gold fields to financial centers of the East. what followed were often...
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The Wells Fargo Stage Line played a heroic role in the history of the West, ferrying passengers and cargo from Missouri to Califormia over a harsh and sometimes hostile land. In Tales of Wells Fargo, Agent Hardie faced weekly tests of will and character, as he protected the stage coaches from outlaws, bandits and Indian raiders, seeing them safely through their journey.
15) Wells Fargo
Author
Publisher
C.N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Wells Fargo and of the people who created it and developed it ito the four-billion-dollar institution that it is today. (inside flap.).
Author
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Luke Dawson winds his way through Dakota Territory, making the stagecoach routes safer. After the murder of his mentor, Wild Bill Hickok, and a confrontation with the murderer John Varnes, there is a bushwhacking against Luke. Discouraged yet determined, he moves on. Three years later, after a long journey, Luke goes undercover as a Wells Fargo agent into Durango, Colorado. A series of stagecoach robberies and the disappearance of a local miner have...