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DescriptionTim Champlin - West Of Washoe  In this story, three of Virginia City's richest citizens set out to enrich themselves even further by salting a worthless mine and taking over the stage coach company that ships the gold and silver to the mints in San Francisco a.k.a. "down below". The avid historical fiction reader will be delighted with this novel because it illuminates a time and place not well known, a pre-civil war mining town. To call Virginia City a mining town is gross understatement. Virginia City was in fact a King Midis treasure trove that could and sometimes did break the bank, occasionally even most of the banks. It's clear, too, that the book was painstakingly researched -- and you'll marvel at the people such as Mark Twain that you know in this book. It takes special courage for an author to include well-known people in his or her work because readers are ruthless when they spot a flaw. Tim Champlin doesn't take chances. He knows his setting and characters like the back of his hand. As the story opens, protagonist Gil Ross is aboard a stagecoach headed for Virginia City to inspect the mines and surrounding geography for present and future yields. That stage is targeted as one of the many hold-ups engineered by the villains who want to break the Overland Stage Company with insurance claims for missing shipments. Awakened from a sound sleep inside the coach, Gil Ross immediately springs into action with his Navy Colt dispatching the would be outlaws with a hail of bullets and saving the day, the coach's cargo, and the other passengers. Publisher: Five Star (ME) (April 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1594146306 ISBN-13: 978-1594146305 Sharing Widget |