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After the loss of his dearly-loved wife of six years to an ailment the doc said was ‘consumption’, James Stanton finds himself torn between the memory of her and the guilt-ridden turmoil inside him that prevents him from committing to another woman. Waylaid, robbed and beaten by Coyote Bill Patterson and his ruthless band of thugs, Stanton struggles to survive his injuries and the hardships of the Uncompahgre Plateau while he does his best to make it back to Horsefly Bench and his outfit, the Swinging S. Badly injured and weak with fever, he is unable to go any farther. Barely clinging ...

Jake Pinkerton had started out alright enough, but after his mother had passed, he lost his way and reverted to running the streets of Albany with a bunch of losers who were barely managing to remain one step ahead of the law. After Jake’s father, Tyler, had given him the last ditch choice of either spending a full year on his uncle’s cattle ranch in Paradise, Kansas, or being written out of what would someday be a very lucrative inheritance, he begrudgingly took the offer and headed west. Patricia (Trish) Wentworth, on the other hand, had spent a good portion of her eighteen years ...

The Cripple Creek Mining District Series is a fact-based accounting of the discovery and early development of the gold fields in and around Cripple Creek, Colorado. Poverty Gulch tells the true story of how that gold was first discovered. History tells us that the town started out as nothing more than a small scattering of false-fronted structures that was initially known as Fremont. During its heyday, at the turn of the century, some folks say it had grown to right around fifty-thousand hardy souls. It lies nestled in a picturesque little valley that is located in the central Colorado ...

After having successfully crossed the Great Plains, Sam and Jay are faced with building and defending The Bartlett Ranch. Through hard work and steadfast determination, the ranch is established and flourishes while they raise their young son, Tom, to manhood. Along the way he meets the love of his life, Sue Hobbs. Through sheer tenacity, and a genuine love of the Lord, the family of pioneers take on the nearly insurmountable odds associated with establishing a foothold in Indian country, head-on. They manage not only a foothold, but also a flourishing horse-ranching endeavor that is ...

Janice had spent nearly her entire twenty-three years as a seemingly forsaken orphan in a Catholic ran orphanage in Chicago. However, when one of the Sisters informs her of an advertisement for a wife and mother to replace the one who had been lost to an accident during the harvest on a hay farm out West in Dodge City, Kansas, with high hopes she jumps at the opportunity to fulfill her life long dream of belonging to a real family, makes the necessary travel arrangements, and is soon on her way to the Western Frontier. During the journey, she is witness to a coldblooded murder at the hands ...

After Tom Bartlett's untimely and mysterious death, his widow, Sue, continues the legacy of The Bartlett ranch. It isn't until nearly a year later, following the arrival to the valley of a troubled gunfighter, Clint Blackman, that strides are made to clear up the mystery and bring the culprits to justice. When things begin to unravel for the unscrupulous banker, Arthur Rhodes, matters get complicated and it is then that Clint, Two Buffalos and Jimmy Slater set out, as Ministers of God, on a manhunt that takes them down to Trinidad where they are faced with admininstering their brand of ...

"Although Sam Bartlett enjoyed a successful horse-supplying business in Independence, Missouri, he was nonetheless envious of the hundreds of folks who passed through on their way west. Unable to stand it any longer, he convinces his wife, Judith, to pull up stakes, pack up their three-year-old son, Tom, and accompany him on a journey that turns out to be much more than either of them could have imagined. The trek quickly develops into one of extreme hardship and survival that is complicated by: dangerous weather, raging river crossings, unique personalities in the wagons, hostile Indian ...

All alone after the loss of her beloved mother and father, at the tender age of seventeen and with nothing left to her but the memories, Lois James answers an advertisement that promises a husband to care for her and a new life in Wichita. While on the train between Las Animas and Dodge City, she meets and makes friends with a kindly, middle aged gentleman whom she learns is a cattle baron of sorts with major holdings in the area around Wichita. With the two of them hitting it off right from the start, Lois learns of the recent loss of Charles’ wife and daughter. However, at that time, ...

This story is not necessarily one of the Civil War, or the gold-seekers that were darned near everywhere around the area, but rather one of the coming together and fighting for survival of a bunch of cattle ranchers that settled in and around the Cuchara Valley near La Veta, Colorado, while they went about fulfilling their dream of building an empire. However, with the influence of the war in the area being what it was, anyone would be hard-pressed to completely avoid the atrocities that were being committed by members of both sides. The collective partnership of homesteaders, who lived on ...

With their temporary log-and-sod ranch house now complete, John and the rest of the Cuchara Valley homesteaders set their sights on obtaining a herd of longhorns to get their ranch off on the right foot. The ensuing journey to a cattle town gets complicated right from the get-go when, the day before they begin their journey, the bank in La Veta is robbed and three of the local citizens are killed in the process. Things then get personal after they discover that one of the bad guys is Willie ‘One-Eye’ Sloan, who gave Andy and some of the others a hard time about six months back. Along ...

Twenty-three-year-old John Wainwright was pretty much a loner. He was purely content to happen around the mountains, tending his traps and living the loner existance the Lord had steered him to. ​ But all that was tossed by the wayside the day a couple of strangers showed up needing his help with finding a pair of wagons the Utes had made off with from their wagon train. It wasn't so much just the wagons that needed finding, as it was the folks who had been caught up in the ruckus. ​ It doesn't take long before the ensuing undertaking turns out to be one of locating and freeing the ...

BIRDSONG OF THE PENATEKA is an unlikely love story between two members of opposing Comanche tribes. It is a must read for fans of the award-winning: Book 1 of The Arkansas Valley Series, titled: TOWARD A NEW BEGINNING. It continues the exploits of the beautiful Comanche woman, Birdsong, after her successful returning of the children to their White Eye families in the wagon train. Shortly after embarking on her return trip to the Penateka village, where she is eager to begin her new life as the woman of her beloved Running Antelope, Birdsong is taken captive by the Arapaho after she blunders...

The AT&SF Railroad finally comes to the Arkansas Valley, But its construction is not without peril, bigotry and hatred. Along with the arrival of the railroad comes the need for compassion and understanding as the Chinese workmen are subjected to abusive hardship and even murder at the hands of the Yankee bosses. And as if that weren't enough, they are additionally being cheated out of a good portion of their hard-earned pay. When Chad and Nate are witness to the abuse, Clint takes the lead in bringing the culprits to justice...frontier style.

In this, the final book in The Arkansas Valley Series, Chad comes to realize the very real benefits of answered prayer after he, his sister ,Becky and their long-time friend, Nate, are taken from their families and held for ransom. During the course of their harrowing experience, Chad realizes some of the things that had been keeping him from completely embracing the Lord and with a troubled heart he finds his way back into the fold. As the title suggests, his faith in the Lord is finally kindled and he comes to realize that he has been called to preach. Chad's continued adventures can be ...

With Tom and Sue now married, much of their focus in on building a loving relationship. The ranch is flourishing and the railroad is coming to the valley, But all is not well as the local banker, Arthur Rhodes, has a devious plan to run folks out and take over most of the valley. After The Bartlett is infiltrated by two of Rhodes' henchmen,the ranch's daily routine is turned upside down as its wranglers find themselves forced to deal with not only lies and trickery, but also Tall Bear's band of murderous, marauding Comanche warriors who have been supplied with Spencer rifles. When Tom ...

Having recently lost their parents to a tragic stagecoach accident, siblings Stella and Mark Crawford are now faced with braving the unknown as they set out in an effort to complete their journey to Wichita where they intend to finish what their father had started and take over the mercantile from a gent named Highram Jennings. Along the way, they meet up with Chase Broderick who is also on his way to Wichita with designs on accepting the invitation from a longtime friend to fill the vacant position of town sheriff as a first step to fulfilling his life’s dream of saving up enough money ...

With Tom's murder having been solved, and Arthur Rhodes no longer a threat to The Bartlett, the ranch flourishes under its new name, Shiloh. Along with the deaths of Arthur Rhodes and most of his henchmen, comes a time of security and well-being to the Arkansas Valley in general and Shiloh in particular. But as the railroad draws closer to becoming a reality along the valley, old wounds are reopened as a new threat rears its ugly head in the form of a ruthless and greedy man named Heywood Jensen, who will stop at nothing to acquire complete control of Shiloh and a huge portion of the valley...