Tales of Wells Fargo

by Frank Gruber

Wells Fargo & Co. was the main artery of the Old West. They had a stage station in every dusty town, but in between, on the long, deserted stretches of the lonely trails, the road-agents waited for the coaches loaded with gold and silver--waited in the shadows, masks on faces, six-guns loose in their holsters, maybe some sweat in their arm-pits...

Because Wells Fargo didn't give up--ever. It had its gunslingers, too, and even tougher, more feared, its undercover detectives--flint-eyed, rock-jawed, the men who fought for WELLS FARGO

190 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

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Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.

Reviews

[Chris Haynes · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. The writing was great and captured the feel of the TV show very well.

[Randy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eight short stories based on teleplays from the TV series starring Dale Robertson as Wells Fargo troubleshooter Jim Hardie, who investigates robberies and murders committed against Wells Fargo employees.

In these stories, he encounters a number of real old west figures including Belle Starr, Sam Bass, Billie The Kid, Lew Wallace, and John Wesley Hardin.