Shotguns and Stagecoaches; The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West by John Boessenecker - 2018

New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2018 Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, New York. 2018. Hardcover. Stated First Edition 2018/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for small remainder mark on textblock bottom. Book Condition: New. DJ: New; NOT Price Clipped ($29.99). Red boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 348 pp 8vo. Through the gold rush and the early days of delivery with horses and saddlebags, to the heyday of stagecoaches and large shipments of gold, and finally to the rise of the railroad and the robbers who concocted unheard-of schemes to loot trains, Wells Fargo always had courageous men to protect its treasure. They were tough fighting men who risked their lives every time the climbed into the front boot of a Concord coach or WF Mail train car. These are the stories of the men who worked for WF and of the men who tried to wrest the treasure WF was to protect from them. A clean pristine copy.