Ex-library usual stamps and markings Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: An unqueanchable thirst for adventure the promise of easy riches brought them to the muddy waters of the mighty Missouri River. Its majestic steamboats offered a new way West for pioneers traders, gamblers thieves, proper young ladies dance hall girls...while along the river bank, war-painted Sioux ruthless bandits waited in murderous ambush to take the riverboats' wealth women for their own. MISSOURI! Where the legendary wagon master Whip Holt once gathered his Conestoga wagons for the slow journey west, now railroads race across the land, steamboats travel the wide "Muddy Water" w/ new settlers new dreams. To strong men like Whip Holt's son Toby falls the dangerous job of hunting down rampaging outlaws Indians. With young army cadet Hank Blake loyal Chief Running Bear, Holt his blazing rifle would challenge train robbers gunrunners...a beautiful lady would become the shameful stakes in a contest between a con man an Englishman... a growing nation would fight for its glorious future w/ the blood bravery of the extraordinary men women whose journey westward began at MISSOURI!