Old West Adventure

No lawman has ever been tested under fire as Sheriff Clay Granger. The lawman must respond to a large murderous Vortman family intent on leaving behind a trail of blood and fear in 1874 Empire, Texas. The Vortmans, led by evil patriarch Asa Vortman, don't mind burning, shooting, bludgeoning or blowing up anyone who gets in their way. To complicate matters, the insidious gang are holed up a most well protected pieces of real estate on the frontier, Ridge Country. Nobody can lay a hand on them in the barren, rugged rock terrain. Or can they? That's Clay’s mission as he fights against the ...

Edited and Corrected Wade Garrison took his vengeance against the men who took the life of his unborn child and tried to kill his wife and son. When the last man was dead from Wade's Sharps Rifle, he took off his badge and rode out of Harper, Colorado a wanted man disappearing into the Montana Territory.

Trip Waller is the best bounty hunter Oregon has to offer. He strives to keep the little town of Sumpter safe from outlaws during the period of constant conflict between the Indians and the government. The love of his life is native woman Keema, and Trip feels that their relationship is blossoming into something beautiful. One day, Keema’s people are attacked by Christopher Long and his gang. Long previously worked for the government before being suspended from his duties due to his hate for the natives and his violent nature. Nobody expects Long to take matters into his own hands and ...

Welcome to the Western "Desert Bloodline" by Ken Cannon, a captivating Western novel that will transport you to a world of untamed landscapes, rugged cowboys, and hidden secrets. Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey where the desert's bloodline runs deep, and the echoes of the past intertwine with the present. This is a tale that will grip your heart and leave you yearning for more. Step into the enchanting setting of the American West, where the sunsets paint the sky in hues of gold and the vast desert stretches out as far as the eye can see. Set in a time when the frontier was still ...

In Ranch Life is Great, you met Cade Collins and Elsie Wintock, who were engaged to be married. Elsie was living in the small town of Sherman, Wyoming, with her parents and her Aunt Gertrude. When her parents were tragically killed, Cade suggested they move their wedding date up. She agreed and he moved both ladies onto his ranch, where he raises top quality horses. Then they set about helping Sheriff Daniel Fitch find the person or persons who killed her parents – and why. In Mail Order Surprise, you met Austin Barrington, who owned a ranch outside of Laramie, Wyoming, and Georgia Langly...

From western writer Gary Church, author of the Johnny Black Western Adventure and Barlow Seeker of Justice series. March your way across the battlefields of the American Civil War and share adventure, pain and danger with Ellis Tucker and Gunnar Lund as they fight for survival against gunfire and disease, while Beatrice Hays waits at home for Tucker, her fiancée. In the next two years, the three will face a multitude of obstacles they must overcome if they are to survive and have a life after the war. From Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the battlefields of Virginia and on to San Francisco, ...

Helen and Frank Schreider's dream was to drive the length of the Americas; from the town of Circle, Alaska (just outside the Arctic Circle), to the world's southernmost town, Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego. With their German shepherd Dinah along for the ride, they were the first people in history to have made this trip.

In the town of Name Pending, Wyoming, Elijah Potbury does brisk business as the territory's only practicing necromancer. For a reasonable fee, he'll raise any friend or family member. Stories contained in this fourth volume: "The Ravenous Man-Eater": Mr. Seven, owner of the airship Azincourt, assigns Professor Hemplewick the task of creating a many-tentacled, armor-plated monstrosity in the form of a giant slug to work in the engine room of the Azincourt. A reanimated human brain from a freshly deceased corpse is needed to power the creature, for which Seven turns to Potbury. Aware of ...

Now that the children are safe and Matt Watchman and his two employees set out in search of their wives and the Indians who have kidnapped them, he finds help in that endeavor from the most unexpected source.

Hewey Calloway is between a rock and a hard place: The open range and simple life of his childhood are disappearing. He can't live a cowboy life whose time has passed and he's not ready yet for the new challenges of the 20th century, like automobiles, telephones, and barbed wire fences. He and his friends, all of them good old boys, must learn that even the best choices involve some kind of sacrifice.

Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt - and in danger of foreclosure. Early's uncle, Jesse, thinks he has the solution: to head West and dig for gold. Fueled by reports of prospectors striking it rich in the Rocky Mountains, Jesse can't think about anything but gold. Early is wild to go with him, as much for the adventure as for the gold. But the journey costs money - more than the boys can afford....

In the town of Name Pending, Wyoming, Elijah Potbury does brisk business as the territory's only practicing necromancer. For a reasonable fee, he'll raise any friend or family member. Stories contained in this third volume: "A Long Way From Name Pending": A traveler from the future is shot and killed in the town of Name Pending, leaving behind a small triangular prism containing a composite of all the collected known knowledge of the twenty-second century. Mr. Seven and most of the townspeople will seemingly stop at nothing to possess it. "Subterranean Sojourn": Mr. Seven journeys deep ...

Blackfoot tribal member Dean Wolfsblood is the keeper of the sacred Dragonfly medicine pipe that makes time travel possible. When Dean’s medicine pipe goes missing—and there’s chilling evidence his fiancée Kai has been abducted—he rushes to the ceremonial place in the mountains to save her from the cruelties of fate and history. Something Kai knows all too well. Dean arrives in the nick of time and finds Kai and his pipe in the brutal hands of Weston Bonner. Weston has crucial information about Badger Lowell, a hoard of gold, and Dean’s long-lost parents. Information that has the...

Andy Adams (1859-1935) was born to pioneer parents in Indiana, worked in Texas for a decade driving cattle, and settled in Colorado Springs, where he penned his cowboy narratives. The Log of a Cowboy chronicles a five-month drive of three thousand head of cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to the Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Montana. This classical work of fiction provides fascinating insights of everyday life on the Great Western Cattle Trail with a team of 12 cowhands, a cook, a horse wrangler and a foreman.

In 1885 Idaho Territory, widow Victoria Hayes would rather face down claim jumpers with her derringer than lose her late husband's star garnet mine. But when a mysterious prospector with a fighter's grace arrives offering help, she must decide if protecting her claim is worth risking her heart. James "Hawk" Davidson has his own reasons for helping the determined widow—as an undercover agent investigating a string of suspicious mining accidents, he believes her husband's death was no accident. Yet the more time he spends with Victoria, the more he admires her courage and faith in the face ...

“Do I need to remind you to take care of yourself?” she reminded him. “Don’t worry about me. I still hate to lose, dear,” Colton mildly admonished her. Colton Day does not get a chance to rest much as yet another threat has come to the rugged frontier town of Temple Ridge. Earlier in the year, former lawman Colton defeated a killer gang and then thwarted a group of kidnappers. Now, Birch Simmons has come to town and killed Temple Ridge’s Mayor Huck Flinton. But bringing the corrupt rancher Simmons to justice will be a monumental challenge. This challenge naturally falls on ...

Two friends committed to one another and their destiny of exploring the wilderness known as French Louisiana. A land that would soon become the Louisiana Purchase and a part of the growing nation of the United Colonies. But another man, wealthy, influential, and vindictive, is determined to see Gabriel Stonecroft pay the ultimate price for the death of his son, a ne'er-do-well troublemaker who surrendered his life in a duel with Stonecroft. After a perilous journey down the Ohio River aboard a flatboat, the two friends now set out to explore the West.

Lady Jacqueline invades the Old West. In 1870, the world’s largest diamond field is discovered in American Indian country. London financier Nathan Rothschild joins forces with San Francisco entrepreneur Asbury Harpending to control the new wealth. To protect his investment, Rothschild dispatches consulting detective, and sometime spy, Lady Jacqueline Bennett to shadow Harpending. Jacqueline’s adventures stretch from London to San Francisco. Through the desert and chased by Indians, she finally scales Diamond Mountain to find the secret of the treasure. As with many of my books, this one...

Lawbreaker Webb Cousins is headed for a short trial and a long stretch in jail. A bounty hunter has him cuffed and covered, with no chance of escape. But when the prisoner and his captor ride into the town of Wagon Mound, death rides with them. In a flash of rifle fire and a spray of blood, Cousins finds himself shackled to a dead man—and unwittingly caught up in a murderous range war he wants nothing to do with. To ride away a free man will take more than breaking his bonds. He'll have to wage a one-man battle against two bitter enemies locked in a vicious cycle of vengeance and cruelty.

The Magic Tree House carries Jack and Annie back to the Old West, where they roam the Great Plains with a Lakota boy.