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Iron Horse War

by C. Lowry
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798295524660
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Grand Ozarks Media
  • Publisher Imprint: Grand Ozarks Media
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  • Pages: 120
  • Original Price: USD 12.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 114 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Westerns

In the Colorado Rockies, the race for a silver fortune is paved with iron, bought with blood, and fought by legends.

For surveyor Rip Campbell, it started as a job: laying a line for the Denver & Rio Grande through the treacherous mountain passes. But in the high country of 1878, a surveyor's chain is a weapon, and every stake driven into the ground is an act of war. The ambitious Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe wants the same prize-the Royal Gorge, the only gateway to the booming Leadville silver mines-and they're not willing to lose.

What begins as a race of competing survey crews quickly descends into a brutal, bare-knuckle conflict. Fistfights and sabotage escalate to rock-throwing battles between crude stone forts built on the canyon rims. But when the AT&SF brings in legendary lawman Bat Masterson and his army of seventy hired guns-including notorious figures like Doc Holliday and Ben Thompson-the game changes. The canyons of Colorado become a private battleground, and the fight for a railroad becomes a war fought by the deadliest men in the West.

Caught in the crossfire, Rip is forced to trade his surveyor's tools for a Colt, fighting a war he never wanted. But as dynamite echoes in the gorge and the body count rises, he uncovers a deeper, more insidious conflict. The real war isn't being fought in the canyon-it's being orchestrated from a thousand miles away by the infamous robber baron Jay Gould, who is using the violence to manipulate stock prices and bleed both companies dry. The gunfighters, the surveyors, and the dead are all just pawns in a ruthless financial game.

Based on the true story of the Colorado Railroad War, this sweeping historical adventure plunges readers into a world of corporate greed, frontier justice, and legendary gunslingers. In the style of Elmore Leonard, Railroad Wars is a gritty, action-packed Western thriller where every survey line is a battle line and the fight for progress is measured in dynamite and dollars.

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