Iron Rails & Ruin: CH 8 | The Most Wanted Outlaw in Four Territories Brings Gunnar a Deal | Wild West Adventure Podcast for Kids
Calloway — the most wanted outlaw in four territories — rides down the main street of Harrow Gulch in broad daylight, and the whole town goes still. Marshal Morrow watches him pass and finds no reason to move.
Calloway walks straight into Mrs. Okafor's boarding house, sits at Gunnar's table, and spreads out a set of stolen Syndicate schematics: a processed Veilstone shipment leaves Copper City in three days, heavily guarded, and Calloway means to take it — because the Syndicate destroyed his father's engine the same way they're trying to destroy the Widow-Maker.
Vesper argues that going outlaw will burn the case they've built. Gunnar makes the call anyway — and then Vesper spots the one twelve-minute gap in the guard rotation that makes the impossible suddenly possible.
Iron Rails & Ruin is a steampunk Wild West adventure for kids 8-14 — a fourteen-year-old engineer in 1882 Montana finds out his father is alive, and the Syndicate has fourteen days to seize every locomotive in the territory.
Perfect for kids 8-14 who love trains, invention, and frontier adventure. For fans of Mortal Engines, steampunk machines and mysteries, and Wild West stories with a clever hero at the controls.
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00:00:00 — A rider comes down the main street and the town goes still
00:02:00 — Calloway: the most wanted man in four territories
00:04:15 — Morrow appears in the doorway — and stands down
00:05:30 — Calloway's gaze moves on — Morrow's drops first
00:06:15 — Calloway ties off the roan and walks into Mrs. Okafor's
00:07:15 — Gunner's calculation: three days is a short window
00:08:15 — At the table: stolen Syndicate schematics
00:12:30 — A Veilstone shipment, three days out — and why Calloway wants it
00:19:45 — Vesper's warning: a raid that burns the case isn't worth it
00:23:15 — "We move in three days" — Gunnar's call
00:24:30 — Vesper sits back down — and finds the gap
00:25:45 — Twelve minutes — the window that makes it possible
00:26:45 — CH 9 — What Comes Next
I am the author of serialized fiction books for kids, teens, tweens and young adults, including:
- Brickhaven: A Bricks Fan Fiction Adventure
- Colony In Danger: A Fire Ant Adventure
- Eagle's Edge: A Story of Rome, Gaul and the Making of a Soldier
- Treasure Island: A Classic Adaptation
- Iron Rails & Ruin: A Novel of Steam, Sorcery and the Lawless Montana Territory
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