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Judy and Ronald Culp
The Telegraph Series
Western Historical Fiction
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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.
       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.
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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.
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ISBN  978-0-8034-9
920-1
Coming Soon!
The Search For Honor