Western Wars

From the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.

Buffalo Bill was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He thrilled audiences far and wide with his Wild West shows, and he showed the world that the characters they read about in dime novels and magazines were real flesh and blood people. For many, Buffalo Bill has become the embodiment of the wild frontier, and both his legacy and his spirit continues to live on.

W.C. Jameson tells the secrets of lost army payrolls and smuggled gold scattered about the countryside, nearly forgotten but awaiting discovery. Jameson, a folklorist, musician, and environmentalist, has been on close to two hundred expeditions for lost stashes of gold, silver, or other treasures.

On a dark day in April 1865, a band of former Confederate guerrillas slaughtered more than 40 Comanches, most of them women and children. This began a six-month reign of terror along the Santa Fe Trail as Comanche chief, White Eagle, took his revenge. The US Cavalry was assigned the task of tracking White Eagle and his warriors down. Lieutenant Colonel Ignatius O'Sullivan's orders were to either bring them in or kill them.

As a young woman growing up in Africa, 17-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee’s bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized that women bear the greatest burden in prolonged conflicts.

During 1944, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces fought their way from New Guinea to the Philippines, Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney, discarding pre-war doctrine, planned and ran an "air blitz" offensive. His 5th Air Force drove forward like a tank army, crash-landing in open country, seizing terrain, bulldozing new airfields, winning air control, and moving forward. At airfields on the front line, Rocky Boyer kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit.

The year is 1815. Following the Battle of New Orleans, American naval officer Patrick Sullivan is given his first command and ordered to search the Caribbean for a rogue warship. The stakes are high, as failure could threaten the fragile new peace treaty between Britain and the United States. Blending fiction with meticulously researched history, author Andrew Costa presents the fourth installment in his series chronicling American military history, The Sullivan Saga.

When General William T. Sherman commissions Ezra Justice to form a secret band of cavaliers who will help end the war between the North and South, his order may impact the West as well.

Badger Kershaw was becoming a familiar figure on the frontier after the War between the States. Riding an Appaloosa with Lobo, his dog-wolf hybrid, often by his side, he was feared by most outlaws on the dodge on whom there was a bounty. It was not a savory profession, perhaps, but Kershaw was honest about what he did. Frontier lawmen for the most part were accustomed to dealing with Kershaw. When the fugitive was willing to surrender, Kershaw would bring in an outlaw alive, but it was not an option he encountered very often.

Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. WEST SIDE STORY is the seventh of thirteen books in this series which will be released at monthly intervals between 27th October 2023 and 27th October 2024. It is April 1962. In retrospect, historians make the mistake of assuming that at the time people were able to join up the dots the way they do years, decades later; as if everybody had perfect knowledge of everything that was going on around them in the world. It was ...

In this thrilling tale, former hired gun Larry Shaw tries to help a prostitute determine the father of her unborn child. Of the three candidates, one stands out - the notorious William H. Bonney. And as a cattle war brews, Bonney has a proposal for Shaw: lend your iron to our side and help us blast our way to victory.

He may be a Confederate turned-bounty-hunter with a predilection for trouble, but Lou Prophet knows you never overstay your welcome in a town that wants you dead. Now, all because a young fool with a lousy poker hand couldn’t hold his temper, Prophet has a bloodthirsty posse aiming to pump him full of lead for murdering the son of prominent cattleman Gerard Loomis.

Hank Gannon grew up on a Florida plantation. He fought alongside his brothers-in-arms in the Civil War. Then he joined the Texas Special Police to help build a more peaceful union - and a future for his beloved Constance. That was the plan. But when a prisoner dies in his custody, Gannon is forced to leave Austin and head into Comanche territory. Alone but undaunted, he meets up with Roving Wolf - who has just slain a former soldier from his unit. Gannon can't let the killing go unpunished. Even here, in this Godforsaken valley, the law must be upheld....

Drawing from a wide array of materials, Ian C. Hope refutes earlier charges of a lack of professionalization in the antebellum American army and an overreliance on the teachings of Swiss military theorist Antoine de Jomini. Instead, Hope shows that inculcation in West Point's American military curriculum eventually came to provide the army with an officer corps that shared a common doctrine and common skill in military problem solving.

Caleb McCallister does not have a normal childhood. His mother rejected him, and his father is an alcoholic. Despite everything, Caleb sticks to his morals and becomes a respected citizen of his hometown. Everyone loves him because of his determination to uphold the law and protect the innocent. Due to his unyielding sense of justice, Sheriff Craig Dalton believes Caleb is the only person that possesses the right set of skills to go after a notorious outlaw by the name of Silas “Blackheart” Kane. The outlaw has been wreaking havoc in Colorado for a while. Somebody needs to stop him. ...

The Wild West has made legends out of many men after their deaths, but like Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James was a celebrity during his life. However, while Hickok was (mostly) a lawman, Jesse James was and remains the most famous outlaw of the Wild West, with both his life of crime and his death remaining pop culture fixtures. James and his notorious older brother Frank were Confederate bushwhackers in the lawless region of Missouri during the Civil War.

Caleb Ashby returns home from the Civil War only to find his world torn apart by devastation and loss. With everything he loved destroyed, Caleb sets out on a treacherous journey to the West, facing some of the most dangerous men of his time. Along the way, he must grapple with his own inner demons, haunted by the memories of war and the horrors of his past. As Caleb navigates the lawless and unforgiving Wild West, he experiences heart-pumping gunfights and perilous cattle drives, all while searching for a sense of purpose and belonging. But when tragedy strikes once again, Caleb is ...

El viento del desierto soplaba sobre los danzantes demonios de polvo mientras salía de la carretera pavimentada de un carril hacia una camino de terracería en ruinas. Mi camioneta se sumergió y se abrió paso sobre profundos hoyos hasta que llegué a una cerca maltrecha que rodeaba el límite de una fachada antigua. Mientras continuaba, llegué hasta algunos trozos de yesca, secados por años bajo el sol implacable, donde una vez hubo una puerta de madera. Había un pestillo de hierro oxidado medio unido a un lado de la puerta caída. Mi camioneta continuó lentamente por el camino hacia...

What if you found yourself unwillingly drawn into America’s first civil war, the Utah War, just one of many wars going on around you? In the Territory of Oregon in 1858, the Sioux, Crow, Arapaho, and Shoshone tribes, ancient enemies, fought each other. They also attacked the US Cavalry guarding the Overland Trail. They raided Mormon pioneers and gold seekers traveling to the California goldfields. The Federal Government had also dispatched a third of the country’s army to subdue a nonexistent rebellion by the Mormons in the Territory of Utah. With the entire intermountain west up in ...

With fewer than 4,000 graduates over 92 years, Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois educated more than ten general officers, a governor of Illinois, Thomas Hart Benton the artist, William Paley founder of CBS, Butch O’Hare World War II’s first Navy Ace and Medal of Honor winner for whom Chicago’s international airport is named and General Paul Tibbets who led the first B-17 bombing missions over German occupied Europe and as pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan to help end World War II . This book is more than about bricks and mortar or the success...