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Stagecoach Station #33
Death Valley
Excellent Book
- GenresWesterns
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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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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August 17, 2025
Another entry in the Stagecoach Station series, Death Valley was a pleasure to read. A grizzled older outlaw and inexperienced young deputy partner up (though for certain not willingly at first), two Cajun girls on the run from a maniac, and it all comes to a head in the titular space. One side coming from Las Vegas, the other from Los Angeles, with everyone meeting in the middle in one of the old mining towns that used to be in the hills above Death Valley.
The action hits almost immediately, rather than a slow burn as in some of the Stagecoach Station novels. I liked the pace of the novel and the shift back and forth between the two perspectives of the outlaw-deputy duo and the LeBeau sisters as they inch closer and closer to where they meet. Though elements of the book were certainly predicable, I still enjoyed the buildup to the finale. Would definitely read again!
The action hits almost immediately, rather than a slow burn as in some of the Stagecoach Station novels. I liked the pace of the novel and the shift back and forth between the two perspectives of the outlaw-deputy duo and the LeBeau sisters as they inch closer and closer to where they meet. Though elements of the book were certainly predicable, I still enjoyed the buildup to the finale. Would definitely read again!
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