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Stagecoach Station #3
Cheyenne
The magnificent Wells Fargo stage speeds along the perilous trail from Billings, Montana to Cheyenne, Wyoming carrying a secret cargo of gold. Riding on board is the beautiful, strong-willed Caroline Wells, a young woman who will risk the dangers of marauding Indians, treacherous frontier and the darkest corners of Cheyenne to bring her runaway brother back home. She finds help in the proud, rugged rancher Kyle Warner. Kyle has a debt to pay to the man who once saved his life -- and a score to settle with a band of bloodthirsty, revenge-seeking highwaymen, who are planning a vicious showdown on the backstreets of Cheyenne.
180 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
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About the author
Hank Mitchum
90 books4 followersHouse name for James Reasoner and others such as D.B. Newton and Will C. Knott.
American author James Reasoner specializes in historical military novels, westerns, and mysteries. He also writes under the pseudonyms "Mike Jameson", "Hank Mitchum" and "Dana Fuller Ross." He has written more than 40 novels. His spouse, Livia Washburn Reasoner, is also a prolific writer of westerns, mysteries, and romances. The Reasoners were each raised in Texas, and currently live near Azle, Texas.
Perhaps Reasoner's best known work is the ten-volume James Reasoner Civil War Series, which features the fictional Brannon family. The series is set in the town and county of Culpeper, Virginia, a major Confederate supply depot in central northern Virginia north of the Rapidan River.
Reasoner has another series of novels set in the American Civil War era, "The Palmetto Trilogy." This series is set in South Carolina and revolves around the Tyler and Gilmore families.
In addition to authoring the Walker, Texas Ranger books, he has written several volumes in the Wagons West series, a frontier series starting with the first wagon train heading to Oregon in 1837, and continuing on with their descendants up through 1941.
American author James Reasoner specializes in historical military novels, westerns, and mysteries. He also writes under the pseudonyms "Mike Jameson", "Hank Mitchum" and "Dana Fuller Ross." He has written more than 40 novels. His spouse, Livia Washburn Reasoner, is also a prolific writer of westerns, mysteries, and romances. The Reasoners were each raised in Texas, and currently live near Azle, Texas.
Perhaps Reasoner's best known work is the ten-volume James Reasoner Civil War Series, which features the fictional Brannon family. The series is set in the town and county of Culpeper, Virginia, a major Confederate supply depot in central northern Virginia north of the Rapidan River.
Reasoner has another series of novels set in the American Civil War era, "The Palmetto Trilogy." This series is set in South Carolina and revolves around the Tyler and Gilmore families.
In addition to authoring the Walker, Texas Ranger books, he has written several volumes in the Wagons West series, a frontier series starting with the first wagon train heading to Oregon in 1837, and continuing on with their descendants up through 1941.
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May 19, 2015
The author’s name on the front of this book and all books in the “Stagecoach Station” series is Hank Mitchum. Of course that is a house name and the real author of this particular novel is Will C. Knott, this being the first book of several he penned for the series. While he did write quite a few books under his own name he wrote many more books as an early and major contributor to long-running series “Longarm”, Slocum” and “Trailsman”.
I like to read a wide variety of books and often include a western in the mix to remind me of what good ol’ fashioned unpretentious story telling is all about. This book, like most westerns is filled with pretty basic characters, intent on getting along with their lives under often less than ideal conditions. It has danger, it has humor, and it has romance. Sort of like watching an episode of “Bonanza”.
Westerns are really a subset of historical novels but they get their own classification due to their tendency to have certain characteristics beyond the mere fact that they take place in the frontier western US post-Civil War era. Their plots are often predictable and their characters often flat or at least single dimensional. But still there is a sense of contentment when I read a good one. I won’t argue that this one is all that different but I will say that I enjoyed reading it nonetheless. It’s a feel-good adventure with quite a few characters (not all the good guys survive) and quite a few subplots all handled simultaneously by a seasoned author. All the individual stories are wrapped up nicely and when I closed the last page I was content. I was glad to learn who the real author was and will be sure to look for more by Mr. Knott in the future.
I like to read a wide variety of books and often include a western in the mix to remind me of what good ol’ fashioned unpretentious story telling is all about. This book, like most westerns is filled with pretty basic characters, intent on getting along with their lives under often less than ideal conditions. It has danger, it has humor, and it has romance. Sort of like watching an episode of “Bonanza”.
Westerns are really a subset of historical novels but they get their own classification due to their tendency to have certain characteristics beyond the mere fact that they take place in the frontier western US post-Civil War era. Their plots are often predictable and their characters often flat or at least single dimensional. But still there is a sense of contentment when I read a good one. I won’t argue that this one is all that different but I will say that I enjoyed reading it nonetheless. It’s a feel-good adventure with quite a few characters (not all the good guys survive) and quite a few subplots all handled simultaneously by a seasoned author. All the individual stories are wrapped up nicely and when I closed the last page I was content. I was glad to learn who the real author was and will be sure to look for more by Mr. Knott in the future.
January 13, 2025
Good classic western story
September 21, 2023
It’s not particularly woke or culturally sensitive but it’s a 39 year old thin pulp fiction western filled with gamblers, prostitutes, Indians, prim but tough hotel owners, evil-doers, stage coaches, a gold shipment, rustlers, ranchers, an opium addicted runaway son working on the new transcontinental railroad…and of course a spit-polished horse soldier transporting gold AND an Indian prisoner.
So much story in so few pages it’s amazing it doesn’t leak out all over the place!!
It’s a quick and fun read if you go in for this sort of guilty pleasure..
So much story in so few pages it’s amazing it doesn’t leak out all over the place!!
It’s a quick and fun read if you go in for this sort of guilty pleasure..
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