Cottonwood Station

by Michael Zimmer

Overview

WHERE THE LAWLESS STAY ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE LAW

SANCTUARY OR TRAP?

The stage is only an hour from Cottonwood Station when the Cheyenne strike. The driver, the shotgun guard, and the passengers are doomed until Clint Dawson appears with his long-barreled Whitworth-the rifle that can throw a slug eight hundred yards. With two injured and the Cheyenne howling at their heels, they have little choice but to risk a run for it. But with Rusty Cantrell and his vicious gang of killers holed up in the isolated outpost and the Cheyenne rallying for a new attack, only one man knows why Medicine Wolf is willing to go to any length to get the revenge he wants . . . and only one man knows what it will take to keep the innocent alive.

ZIMMER'S STYLE IS NEAT AND SPARE, HIS CHARACTERS PEOPLE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT, AND THE SETTING ONE OF GREAT INTEREST TO READERS OF WESTERN HISTORY." -LIBRARY JOURNAL

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628157970
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes, LLC
Publication date:	12/15/2017
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Michael Zimmer writes Western and historical fiction. His work has been praised by Booklist, Library Journal, Historical Novel Society, and others. Born in Indiana, and raised there and in Colorado, Zimmer now resides in Utah with his wife, Vanessa.

Editorial Reviews

When wandering frontiersman Clint Dawson comes to the aid of a stagecoach assaulted by Cheyenne Indians on the Kansas plains, he enmeshes himself in a web of treachery and outlawry that will require the rest of this absorbing narrative to untangle. After routing the war party, Clint joins the stagecoach occupants in a desperate flight to Cottonwood Station, a well-fortified building that should provide security if the Cheyenne attack again--which they certainly will, since they are tracking one of the white travelers, who betrayed them into the hands of Custer's Seventh Cavalry at the Washita Massacre. To add to the group's troubles, deadly outlaw Rusty Cantrell and his gang are also headed for the station, fleeing in the aftermath of a botched bank robbery. In this sophisticated variation on Ernest Haycox's ``Stage to Lordsburg'' (itself a reworking of Guy de Maupassant's ``Boule de Suif''), Zimmer holds the reader's attention by shifting the storytelling among Dawson's group, the Indians and the Cantrell gang. He displays a fine eye for period detail, flawlessly evoking a particular time and place, as he did in Sundown and Dust and Glory . This new novel confirms his place as an important writer in the western genre. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

YA-On a hot August day, Clint Dawson rides across the Kansas prairie, heading for Fort Dodge. A gunshot followed by a Cheyenne war cry changes his plans, and he finds himself in a valiant struggle to save the passengers and crew of a wrecked stagecoach from warriors bent on revenge. The group must reach Cottonwood Station if they have any hope of survival. Zimmer has written a fast-paced Western with a great deal of action and some raw language. He introduces many characters in a confined space for a short period of time and succeeds in giving depth and quality to each one. He refrains from stereotypes of good and bad so often found in the genre. True to the formula, however, is the ultimately satisfying conclusion in which the hero and the girl ride off into the sunset.-Carol Fox, El Dorado High School, KS

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