West on the Wagon Train

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, E. Cody Kimmel. HarperCollins Publishers, $15.99 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-06-029113-6

Young Buffalo Bill is back for his fourth outing in The Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill: West on the Wagon Train by E. Cody Kimmel. Young Bill signs on for a wagon trip from Fort Leavenworth over the Rocky Mountains to Fort Bridger, encountering plenty of trouble and excitement- especially when Wild Bill Hickok comes along-in this fictionalized biographical series bases on Buffalo Bill's autobiography.

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