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Devil's Tower
Devil's Engine
AMERICA'S GREAT HOPE--AND GREATER TERROR
The end of the Civil War and the rise of magical talents had brought unheard-of dangers to the West. Signers and scribblers and chatterers called up nightmare conjurations more dreadful than those that already roamed the unsettled land. Even a bullet-stopping sheriff with as much talent as Jake Bird was hard-pressed to keep Medicine Rock going when towns from Canada to Mexico were being abandoned.
Unknown to the settlers, a greater calamity yet was stalking them. Using Buffalo Bill Cody as his agent, robber baron Jay Gould was laying tracks for America's first transcontinental railroad. Medicine Rock was chosen as the rail point where East would meet West. But the honor concealed catastrophe, for with his strange blue-green steel rails, Gould intended to rob the entire territory of its magic.
Bullets would fly, blood would flow, and Buffalo Bill, Sheriff Jake, and the mysterious Rainmaker would need all their skills to defeat America's most powerful evil . . .
The end of the Civil War and the rise of magical talents had brought unheard-of dangers to the West. Signers and scribblers and chatterers called up nightmare conjurations more dreadful than those that already roamed the unsettled land. Even a bullet-stopping sheriff with as much talent as Jake Bird was hard-pressed to keep Medicine Rock going when towns from Canada to Mexico were being abandoned.
Unknown to the settlers, a greater calamity yet was stalking them. Using Buffalo Bill Cody as his agent, robber baron Jay Gould was laying tracks for America's first transcontinental railroad. Medicine Rock was chosen as the rail point where East would meet West. But the honor concealed catastrophe, for with his strange blue-green steel rails, Gould intended to rob the entire territory of its magic.
Bullets would fly, blood would flow, and Buffalo Bill, Sheriff Jake, and the mysterious Rainmaker would need all their skills to defeat America's most powerful evil . . .
294 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 28, 1996
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November 4, 2014
Is it even fair to rate your own books? In any case, this is my favorite.
July 29, 2020
I just wish he'd written more Jake Bird stories...
February 27, 2012
Sequel to Devil's Tower with Jake and a posse of characters saving Medicine Rock from the evils of Gould's capitalistic instincts. Actually, it is Gould's mad desire to regain power that causes the havoc, not capitalism, but robber barons always make good copy. Enjoy where weird westerns are read.
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May 3, 2011J'ai aimé La tour du Diable et j'ai aimé joué à Deadlands.
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Lire cette suite est un passage obligé.
October 29, 2020
Loved these stories. Wish there were more. It was a really great concept.
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