num_pages: 334
description: An unqueanchable thirst for adventure &amp; the promise of easy riches brought them to the muddy waters of the mighty Missouri River. Its majestic steamboats offered a new way West for pioneers &amp; traders, gamblers &amp; thieves, proper young ladies &amp; dance hall girls...while along the river bank, war-painted Sioux &amp; ruthless bandits waited in murderous ambush to take the riverboats' wealth &amp; women for their own.MISSOURI! Where the legendary wagon master Whip Holt once gathered his Conestoga wagons for the slow journey west, now railroads race across the land, &amp; steamboats travel the wide "Muddy Water" w/ new settlers &amp; new dreams. To strong men like Whip Holt's son Toby falls the dangerous job of hunting down rampaging outlaws &amp; Indians. With young army cadet Hank Blake &amp; loyal Chief Running Bear, Holt &amp; his blazing rifle would challenge train robbers &amp; gunrunners...a beautiful lady would become the shameful stakes in a contest between a con man &amp; an Englishman...&amp; a growing nation would fight for its glorious future w/ the blood &amp; bravery of the extraordinary men &amp; women whose journey westward began at MISSOURI!
language: English
title: Missouri!
titlecomplete: Missouri! (Wagons West, #14)
characters: Edward Blackstone, Cindy Holt, Hank Purcell Blake, Thomasina Harding, Toby Holt, Running Bear, Luis De Cordova, Millicent Randall, Pamela (Drake) Randall
genres: Historical, Fiction, Westerns, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 421
series: Wagons West
publisher: Bantam