Fool's Coach - Softcover
The trail to Salt Lake is populated with ruthless folk, eager to plunder. So when three travellers plan a midnight run through the bandit-infested wilderness, it's a fool's coach indeed.
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Richard S. Wheeler is the recipient of four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award.
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This mildly diverting western concerns a desperate flight in a broken-down coach from the rough-and-tumble Montana goldfield towns of Alder Gulch and Virginia City, where road agents--highwaymen, bushwackers, thugs--make travel hazardous. While you can make a fortune in this hardbitten territory, you'd better not try to leave town with it. Nevertheless, doughty miner Aristotle Scrimshaw, Professor Randolph Figaro, an honest gambler, and Angelica Ramirez, a whorehouse madame with a heart (and 600 pounds) of gold, have their reasons for decamping. Fortitude Hays and Calvin Creed help fix up a coach and borrow a team to make an unscheduled run for it. Once nefarious characters get wind of the treasure (totaling a hard-to-tote half-ton of gold dust), the travelers are attacked and harassed all along the treacherous coach route. Though plot twists and mounting tension move toward a heartwarming finale, Wheeler's ( Dodging Red Cloud ) dialogue rings hollow, stock characters "retort" and "guffaw" overmuch and disbelief--present from early on--finally triumphs.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherSagebrush Large Print
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1785410113
- ISBN 13 9781785410116
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages264
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