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Wagon Ways
WAGON WAYSA Gritty Western Survival Epic
The promise of Oregon was a lie.
The trail west only keeps what it kills.
Rip Campbell has survived gunfights, outlaws, and the hard justice of frontier towns-but nothing prepares him for the Oregon Trail. Hired to guide a wagon train of hopeful pioneers toward a new life, Rip quickly learns the the land is not a passage to freedom. It's an enemy that strips people down to bone and instinct, one brutal mile at a time.
As the journey grinds forward, discipline fractures and desperation festers. Pride turns settlers against one another. Children fall sick from poisoned water. A deadly fever steals lives without warning. Lightning shatters the prairie and sends livestock stampeding into the dark. And when winter comes early, it traps the survivors in a frozen hell where survival demands unthinkable choices.
But nature isn't the only threat stalking the train.
A ruthless band of road agents begins to shadow the wagons, led by the cold and calculating Captain Cole Raines. What starts as harassment becomes a campaign of terror, turning the trail into a running war where every mile must be fought for with blood.
Hollowed by loss and hardened by responsibility, Rip is forged into something colder, sharper-a man burdened by the dead and driven by a single to get the last survivors through, no matter the cost. As starvation, ambush, and betrayal close in, Rip must decide how much of his soul he's willing to burn to keep them alive.
Wagon Ways is a raw, unflinching Western that strips away the myth of westward expansion and replaces it with survival, sacrifice, and hard-earned grit. In the tradition of Elmore Leonard's lean intensity and Larry McMurtry's epic scope, this is a frontier saga where justice is fragile, hope is dangerous, and the trail leaves no witnesses.
If you love classic Westerns, brutal survival stories, and heroes forged by impossible choices, Wagon Ways is a journey you won't forget.
The promise of Oregon was a lie.
The trail west only keeps what it kills.
Rip Campbell has survived gunfights, outlaws, and the hard justice of frontier towns-but nothing prepares him for the Oregon Trail. Hired to guide a wagon train of hopeful pioneers toward a new life, Rip quickly learns the the land is not a passage to freedom. It's an enemy that strips people down to bone and instinct, one brutal mile at a time.
As the journey grinds forward, discipline fractures and desperation festers. Pride turns settlers against one another. Children fall sick from poisoned water. A deadly fever steals lives without warning. Lightning shatters the prairie and sends livestock stampeding into the dark. And when winter comes early, it traps the survivors in a frozen hell where survival demands unthinkable choices.
But nature isn't the only threat stalking the train.
A ruthless band of road agents begins to shadow the wagons, led by the cold and calculating Captain Cole Raines. What starts as harassment becomes a campaign of terror, turning the trail into a running war where every mile must be fought for with blood.
Hollowed by loss and hardened by responsibility, Rip is forged into something colder, sharper-a man burdened by the dead and driven by a single to get the last survivors through, no matter the cost. As starvation, ambush, and betrayal close in, Rip must decide how much of his soul he's willing to burn to keep them alive.
Wagon Ways is a raw, unflinching Western that strips away the myth of westward expansion and replaces it with survival, sacrifice, and hard-earned grit. In the tradition of Elmore Leonard's lean intensity and Larry McMurtry's epic scope, this is a frontier saga where justice is fragile, hope is dangerous, and the trail leaves no witnesses.
If you love classic Westerns, brutal survival stories, and heroes forged by impossible choices, Wagon Ways is a journey you won't forget.
144 pages, Paperback
Published September 16, 2025
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