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| The Telegraph Series Western Historical Fiction |
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ISBN 0 - 8034 - 9711 - 3
ISBN 0 - 8034 - 9711 - 3
When a telegram informs Tilman Wagner that his only son
Dan has been brutally murdered, Tilman sets out from
Texas to find the truth. Who killed Dan and why did he have
to die? The questions surrounding his son's death haunt
him as he makes his way toward Mahonville, Colorado.
Mahonville is a raw mining town controlled by the conniving
Big Bill Ward. Ward has his hand in every pot and terrorizes
anyone who questions his authority over the town and the
mine.
Seeking refuge from the town, Tilman heads to the
boarding house of the widow Catherine Stone. She is an
attractive mother of one with a strength and sense of humor
that makes even Tilman smile and threatens to soften his
cold, hard heart. He moves into the same room his son
Dan had occupied and begins his inquiry and plan for
revenge. Things seem to be going well until Tilman
discovers that Bill Ward wants Catherine for himself in
order to add to his veneer of respectability.
Tilman rides the length of the high mountain valley
searching for the sharpshooter who killed his son. Aided by
Butter Pegram, Tilman discovers that the truth is not always
what it seems, nor is it always what is expected.
Dan has been brutally murdered, Tilman sets out from
Texas to find the truth. Who killed Dan and why did he have
to die? The questions surrounding his son's death haunt
him as he makes his way toward Mahonville, Colorado.
Mahonville is a raw mining town controlled by the conniving
Big Bill Ward. Ward has his hand in every pot and terrorizes
anyone who questions his authority over the town and the
mine.
Seeking refuge from the town, Tilman heads to the
boarding house of the widow Catherine Stone. She is an
attractive mother of one with a strength and sense of humor
that makes even Tilman smile and threatens to soften his
cold, hard heart. He moves into the same room his son
Dan had occupied and begins his inquiry and plan for
revenge. Things seem to be going well until Tilman
discovers that Bill Ward wants Catherine for himself in
order to add to his veneer of respectability.
Tilman rides the length of the high mountain valley
searching for the sharpshooter who killed his son. Aided by
Butter Pegram, Tilman discovers that the truth is not always
what it seems, nor is it always what is expected.
Tilman Wagner receives a telegram for help from
long-time friend John McCandless Law, an army
captain serving at Fort Davis , Texas. On the way to
El Paso, Lomida, John's daughter, and Madeline
Brown, her schoolteacher, fall into the hands of
renegade Indians and then find themselves pawns
in a game of chance. A gambler wins the girls
from the Indians, and delivers them to Chuy Ayala, a
self-styled revolutionary.
Ayala rides both sides of the Texas-Mexico border.
Needing a Gatling gun for his struggle, he uses the
girls to bargain for a Ft. Davis gun.
Held captive in a smugglers' cave deep in a canyon
on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande , Maddie and
Lomida find themselves captives in an escalating
war. The hostages encounter both good and evil in
the bandits’ stronghold.
Into this mêlée, Tilman and his friend Butter go to
free the girls and retrieve the Gatling gun before it
can be turned against Americans.
long-time friend John McCandless Law, an army
captain serving at Fort Davis , Texas. On the way to
El Paso, Lomida, John's daughter, and Madeline
Brown, her schoolteacher, fall into the hands of
renegade Indians and then find themselves pawns
in a game of chance. A gambler wins the girls
from the Indians, and delivers them to Chuy Ayala, a
self-styled revolutionary.
Ayala rides both sides of the Texas-Mexico border.
Needing a Gatling gun for his struggle, he uses the
girls to bargain for a Ft. Davis gun.
Held captive in a smugglers' cave deep in a canyon
on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande , Maddie and
Lomida find themselves captives in an escalating
war. The hostages encounter both good and evil in
the bandits’ stronghold.
Into this mêlée, Tilman and his friend Butter go to
free the girls and retrieve the Gatling gun before it
can be turned against Americans.
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ISBN 978-0-8034-9821-1
ISBN 978-0-8034-9821-1
Tilman Wagner is back!
In response to a telegraphed plea for help,
Tilman rides into New Mexico Territory where
he becomes involved in a wayward son's
rage against his father, a stolen herd of cattle,
and with some unsavory citizens of the
notorious Texas cattle town of Tascosa. The
roots of greed extend to Santa Fe where men
work to skin the family out of its land. Along
the way Tilman calls in a favor from cattleman
John Chisum at the Bosque Redondo
Butter Pegram shows up to side Tilman in
his attempts to aid a frontier family struggling
with their search for justice.
In response to a telegraphed plea for help,
Tilman rides into New Mexico Territory where
he becomes involved in a wayward son's
rage against his father, a stolen herd of cattle,
and with some unsavory citizens of the
notorious Texas cattle town of Tascosa. The
roots of greed extend to Santa Fe where men
work to skin the family out of its land. Along
the way Tilman calls in a favor from cattleman
John Chisum at the Bosque Redondo
Butter Pegram shows up to side Tilman in
his attempts to aid a frontier family struggling
with their search for justice.
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ISBN 978-0-8034-9920-1
ISBN 978-0-8034-9920-1
| The Final Book In The Telegraph Series |
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ISBN 978-0-8034-7611-0
ISBN 978-0-8034-7611-0
Tilman Wagner’s peaceful family life in Buena
Vista, Colorado, takes a sudden change when
he accepts the offer of a sheriff’s badge to stop
a fast-moving gang of robbers who strike and
then disappear.
Prosper Charbonneau, a powerful man with a
cleaned up past, now seeks political power and
appears willing to kill for it. He grooms his
nephew Marcel to take his place if and when he
moves to the Denver statehouse, but Marcel
has one fatal weakness.
Prosper’s daughter Marie, a woman who
outwardly has everything, is desperate for
fulfillment as her life spirals into
disappointments and unfulfilled dreams. She
finds herself drawn to her cousin Marcel’s
exciting plans. Tilman must ask for help from
Marie’s husband, Jim Peel, who wanted the
badge Tilman now wears. But Peel has turned
to whiskey to drown his failure both as a
husband and as a man.
Deputy Sheriff Butter Pegram stands firm when
his old friend Tilman must choose between the
law and a return to his old ways with a gun.
Honor comes in many guises as the town of
Buena Vista, Colorado, continues to grow and
Tilman Wagner and his friends help to settle the
west.
Vista, Colorado, takes a sudden change when
he accepts the offer of a sheriff’s badge to stop
a fast-moving gang of robbers who strike and
then disappear.
Prosper Charbonneau, a powerful man with a
cleaned up past, now seeks political power and
appears willing to kill for it. He grooms his
nephew Marcel to take his place if and when he
moves to the Denver statehouse, but Marcel
has one fatal weakness.
Prosper’s daughter Marie, a woman who
outwardly has everything, is desperate for
fulfillment as her life spirals into
disappointments and unfulfilled dreams. She
finds herself drawn to her cousin Marcel’s
exciting plans. Tilman must ask for help from
Marie’s husband, Jim Peel, who wanted the
badge Tilman now wears. But Peel has turned
to whiskey to drown his failure both as a
husband and as a man.
Deputy Sheriff Butter Pegram stands firm when
his old friend Tilman must choose between the
law and a return to his old ways with a gun.
Honor comes in many guises as the town of
Buena Vista, Colorado, continues to grow and
Tilman Wagner and his friends help to settle the
west.