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Canyon Treasure
by James A. Janke
88 pages
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Stagecoach passengers battle Apaches, bandits, and the desert for survival.
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About the Book
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Rancher Jason McHenry struggled against Apaches, bandits, disease, drought, and hardship in Arizona for five years and finally gave up. He sells his ranch and heads for Chicago to work in the stockyards. The first leg of his journey is in a stagecoach with five other passengers: a fellow rancher heading for Flagstaff, a railroad executive from San Francisco with his pretty young daughter exploring the area for business opportunity, a mining salesman, and a young cavalry officer heading for Washington. These six people, along with the stagecoach driver and the shotgun guard, are thrown into a desperate fight for survival when they discover their next stage station has been burned by Apaches and the station manager killed.
That would have been frightening enough, but then bandits attack them while they are still at the burnt-out stage station, and the stagecoach is run off. Now afoot in the harsh desert country the small group of people would have been at deadly risk even if they weren’t continually threatened by bandits and Apaches from then on; both the bandits and the Apaches see McHenry and his party as choice targets. It is a battle of wits as well as bullets that will determine their fate.
They are all tested. McHenry learns much about people. And he finds something he wasn’t looking for. But he doubts he’ll be able to get any of them out of their ordeal alive.
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About the Author |
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Jim Janke, a retired finance professor living in South Dakota, is fascinated by the West. He has a large collection of books on western lore and history, and he has traveled and continues to travel widely throughout the West, using the locales and stories as inspiration for his Western novels. |
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