num_pages: 221
description: Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation she learned how to care for livestock respect her workers and keep good books. But after her husband is killed she must make a living running a stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. Mary faces challenges that even the men eagerly anticipating her failure would have a difficult time overcoming. After being forced to fire the previous station manager with the aid of a bullwhip Mary must track down stolen horses defend against Indians care for a wayward boy and protect herself and her daughter from Jason Flandrau a man determined to become governor of the Colorado Territory but who is also the ruthless war criminal who murdered Marys husband.
language: English
title: The Cherokee Trail
publisher: Bantam