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Stagecoach Station #5
Virginia City: Stagecoach Station
1987 G.K. HALL PUBLISHING Large Print SOFTCOVER
- GenresWesterns
277 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1983
About the author
Hank Mitchum
90 books5 followersHouse name for James Reasoner and others such as D.B. Newton and Will C. Knott.
American author James Reasoner specializes in historical military novels, westerns, and mysteries. He also writes under the pseudonyms "Mike Jameson", "Hank Mitchum" and "Dana Fuller Ross." He has written more than 40 novels. His spouse, Livia Washburn Reasoner, is also a prolific writer of westerns, mysteries, and romances. The Reasoners were each raised in Texas, and currently live near Azle, Texas.
Perhaps Reasoner's best known work is the ten-volume James Reasoner Civil War Series, which features the fictional Brannon family. The series is set in the town and county of Culpeper, Virginia, a major Confederate supply depot in central northern Virginia north of the Rapidan River.
Reasoner has another series of novels set in the American Civil War era, "The Palmetto Trilogy." This series is set in South Carolina and revolves around the Tyler and Gilmore families.
In addition to authoring the Walker, Texas Ranger books, he has written several volumes in the Wagons West series, a frontier series starting with the first wagon train heading to Oregon in 1837, and continuing on with their descendants up through 1941.
American author James Reasoner specializes in historical military novels, westerns, and mysteries. He also writes under the pseudonyms "Mike Jameson", "Hank Mitchum" and "Dana Fuller Ross." He has written more than 40 novels. His spouse, Livia Washburn Reasoner, is also a prolific writer of westerns, mysteries, and romances. The Reasoners were each raised in Texas, and currently live near Azle, Texas.
Perhaps Reasoner's best known work is the ten-volume James Reasoner Civil War Series, which features the fictional Brannon family. The series is set in the town and county of Culpeper, Virginia, a major Confederate supply depot in central northern Virginia north of the Rapidan River.
Reasoner has another series of novels set in the American Civil War era, "The Palmetto Trilogy." This series is set in South Carolina and revolves around the Tyler and Gilmore families.
In addition to authoring the Walker, Texas Ranger books, he has written several volumes in the Wagons West series, a frontier series starting with the first wagon train heading to Oregon in 1837, and continuing on with their descendants up through 1941.
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September 5, 2019
Grant Jordan is an ex-Confederate soldier and a current buffalo hunter and professional wanderer. When he spies an Indian ambush of a stagecoach near Virginia City, Montana, he rescues the lone survivor, Miss Gwen Quinn. Gwen has her own mission, to bring $10,000 she’s raised back to her father in Virginia City so he can save his gold mining operation and avoid bankruptcy.
This is the fifth “Stagecoach Station” novel, but as far as I know, only two out of the whole series relate to each other. This one is entirely stand-alone. There are only two main characters here so it is inevitable that this one is basically a slow-burn romance plot. But there are several interesting side characters that drive the rest of the plot, including a bitter captain of the local army contingent who provides plenty of anti-Crow Indian sentiment to keep things stirred up.
I would be interested to know the author behind the “Hank Mitchum” house name this time. My research has fallen short, only confirming it wasn’t D.B. Newton or Bill Knot this time around. With the NDAs and contracts authors have to agree to on a lot of these sorts of series, we may never have a complete list of who wrote what. If anybody has further information on this, please let me know.
Another enjoyable entry from the 52-book series.
This is the fifth “Stagecoach Station” novel, but as far as I know, only two out of the whole series relate to each other. This one is entirely stand-alone. There are only two main characters here so it is inevitable that this one is basically a slow-burn romance plot. But there are several interesting side characters that drive the rest of the plot, including a bitter captain of the local army contingent who provides plenty of anti-Crow Indian sentiment to keep things stirred up.
I would be interested to know the author behind the “Hank Mitchum” house name this time. My research has fallen short, only confirming it wasn’t D.B. Newton or Bill Knot this time around. With the NDAs and contracts authors have to agree to on a lot of these sorts of series, we may never have a complete list of who wrote what. If anybody has further information on this, please let me know.
Another enjoyable entry from the 52-book series.
July 23, 2022
I think I enjoyed this one the best so far of this series! A solid story with a thin wisp of a historical fiction nexus. The beauty of this one is the straightforward nature of the story: a young frontier women is trying to get supplies to her father’s remote Montana mine. But there are villains that need to be fended off!
Great fun!
[WARNING: written in 1983, this book doesn’t account for more modern cultural sensitivities. Reader discretion advised]
Great fun!
[WARNING: written in 1983, this book doesn’t account for more modern cultural sensitivities. Reader discretion advised]
January 29, 2015
Enjoyed this book, as with all the Hank Mitchum books I've read (about half of the series so far)
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