{"product_id":"9781429903158","title":"Across the Rio Colorado","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAcross rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the tough-as-leather men who first blazed the way into the untamed frontier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTexas! For the pioneers who streamed out of Missouri it was a land of dreams and freedom. Veteran wagon boss Chance McQuade, a man deadly with a pistol and Sharps, had signed on to take a hundred families there. But the man who hired McQuade was joining the wagon train, and turning it into a brawling, rolling city of sin and violence. Now, on the hard drive West, McQuade faces Kiowa, lightening storms, and killers behind his back-all to reach a promised land that's erupting into war.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127317414128,"sku":"9781429903158","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429903158_p0.jpg?v=1769900546","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429903158","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}