Wagon Boss

Stanley, Chuck

Verlag: W. Foulsham & Co. LTD, 1951

Beschreibung

Solid hardcover in splotchy blue cloth covered boards with navy titles showing bumped tips and spine ends. Rear board slightly sprung. No names, tears or soil in the 160 pp text, just some light foxing on the edges of the page block and on endpprs. Not exlib. Both the spine of the book and the unclipped, original color illustrated dust jacket has the Folsham Western Story cowboy and logo at the foot for uniform display on the shelf. DJ shows a man on a bay horse following or guarding a covered wagon train with his rifle in his right hand, looking backwards. DJ has color loss at dj tips, but no tears or chips, displays well. In the days immediately following the Civil War, delivering supplies to the various cavalry posts in the Northwest United States was a profitable business. Being exceptionally resourceful, Ben Fraser and his partner Corn Pone Kelly combined this service with jobs escorting wagon trans along the trail. Thus it was that Fraser was bossing the train on which Jessie Summers was riding to rejoiin her fiance, Colonel Fetterman, in Fort Laramie. Fetterman didn't approve of private companies such as Fraser's doing government freighting; furthermore, his personal prejudice against Fraser developed into a feud, and his harsh, uncompromising attitude towards the Indians caused grave danger to his sweetheart as well as the lives of the wagon train crew and the entire population of Fort Phil Kearny. The hostile Indians, greatly outnumbering the white men, were helped by white renegades who sold them stolen rifles, and how Ben Fraser's courage and tactics enabled the small military force to defeat the Indians makes a gripping Western yard full of action of those stirring, adventurous days. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers R46527

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Wagon Boss

Verlag: W. Foulsham & Co. LTD

Erscheinungsdatum: 1951

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good