Smoke Wagon

By: Brett Cogburn

Narrated by: Bradford Hastings

Spur Award winner and bestselling Western author Brett Cogburn crafts a post–Civil War railway thriller.

Last stop on the train ride to hell.

Welcome to Ironhead Station, Indian Territory, where the train tracks end and the real action begins. The hell-on-wheels construction camp is the final destination for hard-drinking sinners, gamblers, and outlaws. And woe to the man who tries to clean it up.

Morgan Clyde is a former New York City policeman and Union sharpshooter who lost everything in the Civil War. But he’s still got his guns and his guts. Some folks say he is meaner and tougher than the Devil himself. Which is why the owners of the MK&T Railroad hired Clyde for one hell of a job. They plan to extend the rails through Indian Territory, connecting Missouri and Kansas to Texas … But the ornery citizens of Ironhead Station want to keep things just the way they are. They’ve already killed the first two lawmen who tried to tame their town. Now they’ve put together a welcome wagon to greet Clyde, including one half-mad preacher, one hillbilly assassin, and twenty train-robbing bushwhackers. They’re laying plans to stop the railroad dead in its tracks—along with their new lawman.

There’s just two things the folks of Ironhead Station didn’t take into account: you can’t stop the wheels of progress. And you can’t stop a legend like Morgan Clyde.

©2017 Brett Cogburn (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

SMOKE WAGON

This is the first book in this series about Morgan. Morgan is a tough no nonsense Marshall. I like how he handles any situation that comes his way. This book held my interest and I'll save it and listen to it again later. He's hired to clean up a town that the railroad is coming through. It's a good example of powerful people being brought down. There is action and a good story line in this book. It's long enough to build up the characters. You get to know there personalities. I really liked Dixie. I'll continue with this series. Bradford Hastings does a good job narrating this book. If my review is any help will you please click on the helpful link below. Thank you.