Download or read book The Last Wagon Train written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gunsmith 442 Clint is approached while in Denver by a young woman who asks him if he will guide her back along the trail taken by the wagon train that brought her there when she was younger. Her mother has died recently, but her father perished years ago along that trail, and she wishes to find his grave and bring him to Denver to lie beside his wife. Clint agrees to help her, but when the search for her father’s grave turns deadly, he starts to wonder what else might be buried with him?

Download or read book The Last Wagon Train written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary nationally bestselling Western authors return with a brand-new West Texas–set series for their legions of loyal fans. WILL THIS BE . . . THE LAST WAGON TRAIN? A new railroad line is coming to Hansen’s Bend—and the Old West will never be the same. Especially for the Callahans. They’ve been running the local wagon train outfit for years. But now a pompous rail boss named Arbuckle wants to put them out of business. This big-city weasel mocks the Callahans’ “slow-poke” wagons—and bets he can finish laying track all the way to the end of the line before Callahan’s wagon train even makes it over the mountains. Callahan accepts the challenge—and gets gunned down before it even starts . . . But the contest isn’t over. The wagoner’s son, Luke “Tomahawk” Callahan, has returned to Hansen’s Bend after five years as an army scout. He knows nothing about the rail boss’s challenge or his father’s murder—until he sees the newspaper headline: “The Last Wagon Train?” The pretty lady journalist who wrote it wants to ride along and follow this story to the end. And of course, Tomahawk wants to defend his father’s honor and avenge his death. But Arbuckle has sent his henchmen to sabotage the wagon train to make sure Tomahawk and his wagons are dead on arrival . . .

Download or read book The Last Wagon Train West written by Glen Laws and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the emigrants following the Oregon Trail in the year of 1867. One of families is the Silas Martin family and daughter Mary who keeps a diary of events along the trail. Mary had two suitors during the trip-flamboyant John James Fairfield, 19-year-old son of Capt. Fairfield and James Monroe Cromwell, son of Rev. Cromwell. In the spring 1867, construction on the transcontinental railroad had reached Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Some emigrants were now using the railroad for their westward push. In early spring of 1867, Silas Martin joined 20 other emigrant wagons and 2 cargo wagons at Independence Missouri to begin their trek up the trail. Capt. Zeb Fairfield is the wagon master. Capt. Fairfield has a secret contract with the Army to bring 200 Spencer repeating rifles and $200,000 in gold to General Armstrong Custer bivouacked at Fort Hall by September. The first attack on the wagon train was by the Platte River by a remnant of the Quantrill Raiders and the Cole Younger gang. As the wagon train moved westward, it moved into an area known as the High Plains Indian Wars as designated by the Army. The Sioux and Arapahoe Indians joined forces to attack settlers and wagon trains. The first Indian attack was before Fort Laramie by a large number of Indians. Several emigrants were killed and several dozen Indians. A small Indian war party attacked emigrants in a broken down wagon with one emigrant killed and several Indians. At Fort Hall, four the wagons turn north to Fort Henry. The first days the wagons were accompanied by the Calvary due to an uprising by any Blackfoot Indians. On the third night, a Blackfoot Indian slipped into the camp and attempted to kill Mary.

Download or read book The Lost Wagon Train written by Stephen A. Bly and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Retta Barre's not the first 12-year-old girl to travel the Oregon Trail, and she won't be the last. But for something that's supposed to be the grandest adventure of her life, the days sure are dull! Thick dust, vindictive bugs, and picking up buffalo chips - not exactly the stuff of the action-packed penny novels she loves to read. When things change in Retta's life, though, they change fast! A simple trip into the prairie, along with Retta's enthusiasm and timing, brings adventure and trouble - all at the same time! Soon Retta is the talk of the wagon train, and her friends don't want to miss the next caper she's sure to stumble into. And Retta certainly won't let them down."--Back Cover.

Download or read book Twentieth Century Fox written by Aubrey Solomon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first paperback edition, Solomon, a screenwriter/story editor who co-authored The Films of Twentieth-Century Fox and produced the television show That's Hollywood, reruns his history of management in the boom and bust years of this major motion picture company. Includes a photo of founder/producer Darryl F. Zanuck; the introduction to the original edition; and data on the studio's hit movies, film rentals, and production costs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Last Wagon Train written by Stephen Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the "Last Wagon Train" is taken from the journals of Walter Weaver. It describes an actual journey that took place in 1897, from The Indian Territory to Oregon, by way of the Oregon Trail. Walter was a member of a small group of people traveling west, in wagons, nearly thirty years after passenger rail service had been established to the west. Rail was by then the preferred, and most commonly used, means of long distance travel.Walter documented well, the joys, the excitement, and the great anticipation felt by all members of the small wagon train leading up to and beginning the journey. Emotions that once the trip began soon turned to frustration, anger, boredom, and fear. His writings revealed many personal trials, tests, and hardships endured along the way, some expected but some that were unforeseen and much more severe than any of them had ever expected.Walter's journals also chronicled the good times experienced along the way and revealed how that trip bonded this small group. Strong, lasting friendships and relationships developed during the journey, some that continued throughout their lifetimes, and some that still exist to this day.

Download or read book Wagon Train written by S. A. Kramer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-11-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to head out west in a covered wagon? How did the pioneers get their wagons over rugged mountains and across wide rivers? Hop aboard the wagon train and find out what life was like for American pioneers!

Download or read book LOST WAGON TRAIN written by ZANE GREY. and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, a veteran of the Confederate army goes West. He and his band of outlaws plan to hijack a large wagon train with the help of Native Americans.

Download or read book Wagon Train Cinderella written by Shirley Kennedy and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling the Overland Trail toward California, a lonely young woman learns that love can lead you out of the wilderness . . . 1851, Overland Trail to California. As a baby, Callie was left on the doorstep of an isolated farmhouse in Tennessee. The Whitaker family took her in, but they’ve always considered her more a servant than a daughter. Scorned by her two stepsisters, Callie is forced to work long hours and denied an education. But a new world opens to her when the Whitakers join a wagon train to California—guided by rugged Luke McGraw . . . A loner, haunted by a painful past, Luke plans to return to the wilderness once his work is done. But he can’t help noticing how poorly Callie is treated—or how unaware she is of her beauty and intelligence. As the two become closer over the long trek west, Callie’s confidence grows. And when disaster strikes, Callie emerges as the strong one—and the woman Luke may find the courage to love at last . . .

Download or read book The Last Wagon Train written by Emeline Lucinda Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new American journey.

Download or read book The Last Wagon Train and Other Short Stories and Poems written by Lou Costello and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Last Train to Montana written by George D. Miller and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of the Old West where human perseverance and downright doggedness of the brave and, at times, weary pilgrims nurtured their inner push to staying the trail west. This was to be the routine that was to form the settlers’ strength and resilience of the day. Doggedness of the lead wagon driver displaying his/her ability to place the empty wagon tongue always to the northwest, assuring their unerring starting direction, each morning. This is the story of such individuals, whose tragedies and romance along dusty rutted trails forever beaten into history by the multitude of wagons, horses, and oxen, placing their own stamp on the multitude of restless pilgrims who preceded them. This is a story on one heroic individual leading what would be his last wagon train to the mountain wilds of Montana. His firm hand in handling the settlers’ disputes and/or shoot-outs kept the train in order by maintaining his sense of right and wrong.

Download or read book Emigrants on the Overland Trail written by Michael E. LaSalle and published by Truman State Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the “lost” year of the overland emigrants in 1848, this volume sheds light on the journey of the men, women, children, and the wagon trains that made the challenging trek from Missouri to Oregon and California. These primary sources, written by seven men and women diarists from different wagon companies, tell how settlers endured the tribulations of a five-month westward journey covering 2,000 miles. These intrepid souls include a young mother, a French priest, a college-educated teacher, and an ox driver. Subjected to the extremes of fear, failure, suffering, and hope, they persevered and finally triumphed.

Download or read book Daily Life in a Covered Wagon written by Paul Erickson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what it was like traveling on the Oregon Trail, including what travelers ate, wore, and saw along the route

Download or read book The Last Wagon Train Across Kansas written by R Dye and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new born baby with no mother or father claiming her, was given to a couple in a farming community in Cedar Grove, Missouri. They named her Elizabeth Ann Morgan, she was their pride and joy. They registered her name in the church bible, and in time, the one room school. She was a beautiful toddler, curly brown hair and blue eyes. Her parents had dark hair and brown eyes, but the small community of people noticed, but said nothing about it, if she was adopted? When Elizabeth started school she advanced quickly in reading and writing. She loved everything about school. Miss Jeeters became a friend, they spent after school time together, and she was hoping that Elizabeth would go to school past the eighth grade. There was no transportation to take the students to the country schools. Allen Morgan, her pa, was a dreamer, he had trouble keeping the farm going. He would spend hours thinking about the gold mining towns. He wanted to join the wagon train going to Colorado in May 1894, Elizabeth would be turning 14 in the summer. This move would change their lives forever....

Download or read book The Meek Cutoff written by Brooks Geer Ragen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.