num_pages: 338
description: Only the most daring crossed the River of No Return to enter this wild, lawless region. Mountains laden w/ riches lured prospectors burning w/ gold fever. Easy money brought ruthless young men w/ guns for hire. &amp; hidden amid the vast forests of white pine Indian warriors who gathered to drive the white man from the red man's ancestral home.IDAHO! Two battalions of brave calvary troops escort the new governor of Idaho Territory, Toby Holt, across nearly impassible mountains, as a desperate United States government seeks to bring law &amp; order to this untamed territory. Criminals have already staked their claims in the saloons &amp; bordellos of Boise. Marauding Indian bands are spreading murder &amp; mayhem among terror-stricken settlers. To Toby Holt, son of legendary wagon master Whip Holt, &amp; his friend Rob Martin falls the perilous task of turning a wilderness into a safe homeland for the generations to come. But shadowy figures from the past plot a deadly revenge for Toby &amp; his beautiful wife Clarissa...a passionate English lady arouses dangerous desires in unscrupulous men...&amp; the rising sun lights up majestic snow-capped peaks as a new day for freedom dawns on the matchless grandeur of IDAHO!
language: English
title: Idaho!
titlecomplete: Idaho! (Wagons West, #13)
characters: Edward Blackstone, Cindy Holt, Wang, Hank Purcell Blake, Stalking Horse, Toby Holt, Rob Martin, Running Bear, Murphy, Kale Salton, Pamela (Drake) Randall, Clarissa (Sinclair) Holt
genres: Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance, Westerns
ratings_count: 459
series: Wagons West
publisher: Bantam Books