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  • Wagons West

  • Cowan Family Saga Series, Book 1
  • By: Russel J. Atwater
  • Narrated by: Scott Miller
  • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Wagons West

By: Russel J. Atwater
Narrated by: Scott Miller
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He was a greenhorn but didn't know it.

When Bruce Cowan takes his family and flees Boston to homestead out west, he figured the journey to California to be long but safe. Their first day out reveals how wrong he is and the perilous dangers of the Santa Fe Trail.

It would have been a massacre but for Trent and Pat MacLeod.

Trent favors a Sharps .50 caliber buffalo rifle, while his younger brother Pat packs two Texas Navy Colts. They both prove deadly and a force to be reckoned with.

The Cowans and the McLeod brothers forge a bond those first few days, sustained in part by Trent's attraction to the 18-year-old Becky Cowan. His overtures are not returned.

The brothers join the Cowans on their hazardous journey west as they face harsh conditions, bandits, and Indian attacks. Will their oxen survive the trip? Will the man Bruce Cowan is fleeing catch up with them? Should they take the Cimarron Cutoff through the desert or stick with the Santa Fe Trail through the mountains?

Even with the help of Trent and Pat, the Cowans are forced to learn quickly to survive the rigorous demands of the Wild West.

©2020 Russel J. Atwater. (P)2021 Tantor
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Entertaining Western About A Family Traveling West

A very good book that focuses on the story rather than the details of what life was like in the olden days. There’s a lot of killing that doesn’t quite fit with reality, but the story holds up and I was left wanting more when the book was finished. There is no gore or truly upsetting detail to be concerned with, so I definitely would recommend this book to almost any age reader or listener.

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Clean family entertainment

Moving story suitable for mature children and the family as a whole . Great narrative to accompany someone engaged in mundane routine work .

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Wagon West

Good Western story of what traveling by wagon train through the untamed west was like , facing indian attacks,criminals, and tornado.
Has lots of action,adventure,and some romance.

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