Native American West

No more English tea parties with her father’s medical colleagues for Gilda Griffiths. She left those behind for the open Virginia plains and plans to leave the East Coast, too, before a violent figure from her past catches up with her. When Williamsburg bully, Emmett Lawson, assaults an elderly Shawnee chief, however, Gilda feels compelled to use her medical background to nurse him despite the vocal protests of his embittered yet devastatingly handsome son. Can Gilda and Blue Sky put their pasts behind them and ride together toward a future neither of them believed could be theirs?

Sheriff Zeb Hanks has his hands full when sociopath Jimmie Joe Walker, recently released from an Arizona state prison, masterminds a devious plan to make himself filthy rich. His plan involves Ángel Gomez, a down-on-his-luck half Mescalero Apache/half Mexican. Ángel's alcoholism and far-fetched dreams make him an unwitting dupe in Jimmie Joe's plans, which end up endangering Ángel's own life, as well as the lives of those he loves.

In the year 1850, an adolescent Filipina girl is captured by marauding pirates and tossed into a whirlpool of turmoil. Emerging from her misfortune, she finds herself bravely traversing from Hawaii to The Cascade Mountains and onward into the American Old West. By chance, she stumbles upon a treasure of gold extracted by Chinese miners,and hidden before the Chelan Chinese Massacre.. Fate and her quest to return to the Philippines push her onward. Saddle your horse and hang on as you follow her down the path of her adventure! The trail is laced with actual historical events and Native ...

Gabriel Du Pré, the old Montana fiddler at the center of Peter Bowen's atmospheric, engrossing series set in the dirty, dusty Montana that's rarely featured in travel brochures, has a knack for finding trouble. Or rather, trouble has a knack for finding him. There's a rumor going around that Du Pré and his old sorceror friend Benetsee have come across a parcel containing the lost journals of Lewis and Clark, and outsiders, drawn by the spirit of the legendary explorers, are beginning to invade Toussaint.

They survived America’s deadliest Indian war; winning a lasting peace proves even more dangerous for new mother Annabelle and Union sharpshooter Josey Angel. The couple are thriving as ranchers during Montana’s gold rush. With an end to fighting on the “Bloody Bozeman” trail, they can build a family home. But when a series of gruesome murders jeopardizes treaty negotiations, Annabelle and Josey must find and clear the name of the warrior who once held Annabelle captive: Crazy Horse. “He’s just as likely to kill me as listen to me,” Josey says of the man determined to drive off...

Clean and Wholesome Historical Western Romance Cripple Creek’s boarding house is at risk with the bank, why? Rita McPherson Tessa good friend doesn’t hesitate to help. Rita attempts to convince Bryce Daniels, head of the team sent to tear down the boarding house, that he should at least wait until after Christmas. Bryce is intrigued by Rita, who is as fiercely intelligent and beautiful as she is cautious about social interactions. Just as their relationship starts to develop, though, Rita discovers the person who has embezzled Tessa’s money and suddenly her life is in danger. With ...

The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery. Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the Confederacy, Latch sets his sights on the wealth of resources pouring westward from the northern United States, putting together a band of ruthless misfits to help him stake his claim of the riches of the caravans.

After barely escaping nemesis Killer Boots in the tiny Arizona Territory town of Glorious, Cash McLendon is in desperate need of a safe haven somewhere - anywhere - on the frontier. Fleeing to Dodge City, he falls in with an intrepid band of buffalo hunters determined to head south to forbidden Indian Territory in the Texas Panhandle. In the company of such colorful Western legends as Bat Masterson and Billy Dixon, Cash helps establish a hunting camp known as Adobe Walls.

In the enchanting beauty of Saint-Tropez, renowned author and fashion designer Sarah Brooks Dubois spins tales of romance, her bright future shadowed by a lost love and a haunting past on Wyoming’s Yellowstone Creek Ranch. The reappearance of "TC," her former lover and Chief of the Shoshone Nation, brings news of her father's decline, tilting Sarah's world. Together, they rekindle a perilous flame on the French Riviera, unveiling a secret son who links their past and present. As they navigate the dance between yesterday and today, Sarah and TC face threats from Raymond Littlehawk, an ...

Before the outsider, now Chief Heads Off, brought the Elk Dogs (horses) to the People, their strategy had always been to flee or hide from their mortal enemies, the Head Splitters. Now the People live in peace, but the young warriors long for war.

The Comanche warrior Horseback is born on the same day that the first horse comes to his people. He matures into a powerful leader of uncommon wisdom and vision. Through the strong medicine granted to him by the spirits and the love of Teal, the most beautiful woman in his tribe, Horseback is destined to forge a new direction and lead the Comanches to rule the plains.

Lieutenant John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq and the son of Gabriel Du Pré's girlfriend, to accept the Navy Cross. First, however, Du Pré and Patchen must find the wounded marine, who was last seen drinking heavily in the Toussaint Saloon. They locate him soon enough, disheveled and stinking of stale booze, but a sobering visit to a medicine man's sweat lodge reveals a much greater mystery.

Stories that stir within us the unquenchable hope for a better tomorrow. Dr. Karen Anderson stepped through the veils of reality, her heart syncing to the rhythm of a world long past. The past and present merged into a tapestry of passion and history, bringing to life an adventure that transcends time. Amidst the rolling plains and the whisper of the wind, she found a bond with Standing Deer, a warrior as steadfast as the earth itself. Their journey, a tapestry woven from the threads of history and dreams, reminds us that love knows no bounds, not even those of time, and in the embrace of ...

This is part of The Spanish Bit Saga.

When they mastered the ways of the "Elk Dog," the horse, the band prospered. Yet they knew the old traditional ways must not die. Owl's father had changed the lives of The People bringing the horse from his native Spain. Now the younger son of the legendary chief must make his own reputation by learning the way of the buffalo from an ancient medicine man.

It’s a misty night on Puckachee Mountain high in the Alleghenies. A violent storm has cut power and left roads nearly impassable. Then a young professor’s body is found under a fallen power line…with bite wounds in her skull. This is another fascinating West Virginia mystery, testing the wits of detectiveJosh Draper and his alluring assistant Annie McBride.What caused the death? Was she electrocuted? Was she a victim of the famed eastern cougar, thought to be extinct?Surrounded by a host of characters, all with a vested interest in the case, Josh and Annie must sort through clues and ...

Available as a value box amazon.com/dp/B073RQYPBG (copy and paste the link into your browser) American Mail order brides of the West, Historically Inspired clean and wholesome short story romance Atlanta 1880 Sara has not had the best of upbringings. Her mother, a single woman with a fondness for drink and dubious choices when it comes to friends, is not the ideal mother. She also refuses to tell her daughter anything about her past. But despite her unstable background, Sara has sound morals and a strong and confident nature, and her friends adore her for it. -Has Sara made the right ...

While portraying life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the final years of the 18th century, Cooper deftly explores the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the American experience. He contrasts the natural codes of the hunter and woodsman, Natty Bumppo, and his Indian friend John Mokegan with the more rigid structure of law required by a more complex society.

Sky Light, pure Comanche, was too strong and too wild for the mission to hold her. In her ill-planned escape, she tangled with a man she would never have even thought about. He was a proud man, a strong man, and he looked the part, as Apache as they come. But he stepped up and helped. With his training and his love, he won her heart. As mismatched as they could be, they were not welcome in any Comanche village, but soon, she found herself, found her calling, and vowed to be free. Told from her last years, her memoirs. This is what our elders are made of: memories. A fascinating tale of love...

Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of 12 faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, young Jane finds herself involved in an unusual and touching romance with a dreamer 16 years her senior, struggles to make peace with an emotionally distant mother, and fights to build a family of her own.

The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively and persistently sought to establish a new political order that would affirm their land claims, protect them against attack, and promote trade.