A Wagon Train for Brides

By Kent Conwell

Mesquite-post tough Howie Forrest just thought he'd seen the elephant when he reached Independence, Missouri with two thousand head of ornery Mexican steers despite tornadoes, hail storms, cattle rustlers, and Jayhawkers. If he'd been holding a squalling bunch of wild tomcats with their tails tied together in each hand, he couldn't have found himself in more trouble and despair than agreeing to trail boss an ox train of twenty-eight brides over six hundred miles to Palo Pinto, Texas--after he taught the women how to drive oxen. He discovered soon enough that nothing compared to handling twenty-eight independent women, not even breaking up fights, fording swollen rivers, rescuing runaway boys from Kiowa Indians, tending rattlesnake bites, and fighting off Comancheros.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803495102
• ISBN13: 9780803495104
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Amazon Publishing
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

A Grand Old West Adventure

John Howard Forrest, or "Howie" to all who know him, is one of the best cattle-driving men in the west. He can drive a herd of two thousand longhorns from Texas to Abilene and not lose more than two dozen along the trail. But now maybe he's bit off a little more than he can chew. Colonel Wilt Egerton has hired him to trail boss a wagon train of twenty-eight brides over six hundred miles of rough, tough range. With the story-telling ease of Louis L'Amour, Kent Conwell's tale of Howie and his adventures on the trail - rattlesnakes, wild fires, swollen rivers, marauding Kiowas, and ruthless Commancheros - sweeps the reader along at a breathless pace. Full of intelligent characters and believeable plot twists, this is a page-turner that you won't want to put down till the last (very satisfying) paragraph.