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But when Villa kidnaps the Colonel's grandchildren and absconds into the Sierra Madre, the aging New England patriarch and his son head to El Paso, hoping to find a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the Generalissimo. El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa against a thrill-seeking railroad tycoon known only as the Colonel-whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico. Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. Three decades after the first publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with this sweeping American epic.

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But with Apaches on the warpath with bloodlust-and a one-eyed cutthroat killer on his trail-this 400 mile journey is like something straight out of his worst nightmare. The travelers are a small troupe of performers with dark histories of their own: a song-and-dance man with a drinking problem, a juggler with a secret, a knife thrower with a past, and a beautiful fan dancer who’s on the run from a one-eyed, vengeance-seeking outlaw. And now it’s Red Ryan’s turn to guard five foolhardy passengers on the stage’s next-and possibly last-trip. Each of its last three drivers and three more riding shotgun came to a violent, bloody end. 1,000 WAYS TO DIE.Īccording to local legend, the stagecoach known as the Gray Ghost is either haunted, cursed, or just plain unlucky. Riding shotgun, Red Ryan leads a doomed stagecoach of the damned on the longest, deadliest journey of his life…ĥ PASSENGERS.

Guarding a foolhardy troupe of performers aboard the Grey Ghost stagecoach, Red Ryan’s next-and possibly last-trip is a Wild West-style road trip across 400 deadly miles. Johnstone, the fifth high-speed, blood-soaked Red Ryan adventure takes you to the lawless frontier, when every stagecoach was a moving target, every passenger needed protection, and it took a brave man with a fast draw to ride shotgun.

From legendary Western writers William W.