Indian Western

In 1886 the West was still growing. Settlers were plagued by Indians and roaming outlaws. Lawlessness ran rampid even in the small Western towns that grew out of necessity to support settlers in the area. But still, the settlers came. They banded together to make their own laws. Until real lawmen came in to take over. The T-bar ranch located roughly 40 miles south of the rail line that ran through Kansas City Missouri was owned by cattle rancherThomas Tagget whose father settled the land. His father was killed by a renegade band of Indians over 20 years ago, Tagget and his wife Sarah and ...

A Native American adventure, romance, and the perils of the mountains follow Jedidiah Bracket back into the depth of his valley. Who will survive, Crow Killer or the ones with the great glaring red eyes that follow him? As the old medicine man, White Swan, predicted from the smoke of his fire; Jedidiah saw the evasive light on the mountain, found his beautiful valley, and had to fight many battles to overcome his enemies. He had to kill, but only after being challenged. He saved and protected his friends and the woman he loved. Love came to him briefly, only to be snatched away like a bolt ...

When the peoples of the Indian Territory found themselves in the midst of the American Civil War, squeezed between union Kansas, confederate Texas, and Arkansas, they had no way to escape a conflict not of their choosing - and no alternative but to suffer its consequences. When the Wolf Came explores how the war in the Indian Territory involved almost every resident, killed many civilians as well as soldiers, left the country stripped and devastated, and cost Indian nations millions of acres of land.

The story is inspired by the true events surrounding the 1862 Santee Sioux Indian revolt throughout Minnesota and the Dakota Territory. The story begins with Red Iron as a young boy and quickly moves to his rise among the Indian ranks and his lifetime quest for peaceful coexistence. Red Iron reaches adulthood and fathers twins; a boy, Curved Wing, and a girl, Blue Feather. The tale moves through time showing the close relationship of the brother and sister to their adulthood and the heart of the story, the year 1862. Curved Wing is now a scout for the U.S. Army where his friend and ...

Mattie Reynolds made a promise to a dying Meg Boldrin to fulfill her last wishes, to mend the strained relationship with her son from beyond the grave. She would make the journey of her life by stagecoach over seven hundred miles to the small East Texas town of Chivalry, receiving a cavalier welcome. Her quick, persistent determination fouls her pure intentions to do right by a grieving son. Chess Boldrin, Chivalry’s most eligible bachelor is situated comfortably with everything he needs. When Chess and Mattie meet, the temperatures run high and short. Chess avoids her attempts to gain ...

From the author of Sutter's Gold and Bullwhip McCann comes five short stories of the Old, as well as the new, West. There is action, romance, humor and adventure spread throughout the herd. The one key ingredient that they all possess is that Western flavor that makes them unique in an otherwise City Slicker world. So, hang your hat on the peg, kick off those dusty old boots, and read a spell.

As promised, Darcy Butler returns to the Crow Indian reservation. It has been one year since she completed and sold her novel based on her roots and the Crow Indian tribe. Her novel had sold well and she decided that she would give back to a culture that had enriched her life. Upon her return, she finds a gift bestowed upon her from her mentor and distant cousin, Tiponi. The wise elder of the tribe has left his journal for Darcy in the event of her return as vowed by the ‘great storyteller.’ The book becomes a treasure to Darcy as she discovers the plight of the children of Running Wolf...

An old soldier with a nose for trouble and a grumpy Sioux squaw for a partner hunts for a lost child across wild and lawless 1870s Kansas.

The fourth and final book in Dena Smallwood’s SYRIE series. NOAH stands alone, yet closes the Syrie circle. You met – and came to understand – Noah in the first three books. You saw him guiding the Oregon Trail pioneers and learned of his childhood and blacksmith training. You read of a deep relationship with his Cayuse family and friends. And of his ultimate return to the Rye Valley cabin and a life with Syrie and their children. Now, for the rest of Noah’s story. Ride with Noah as he hunts meat for the Army in Oklahoma and meets his first Native American family. Experience the ...

A mysterious old mining town from the old west draws the attention of a police squad while a series of murders and bank robberies take place. Sergeant Payne decides to send in Cole Parker, his top homicide investigator. Cole becomes informed of the town's wild west history, and he makes some shocking discoveries. But uncovering a secret passageway, hidden hatchways, and an underground tunnel is just the beginning. He begins to realize that the bank robbers have more of a history than he imagined, and he soon finds himself in dreadful danger.

Inside these pages dwell denizens of the mythic Old West; ranchers and rustlers, wranglers and robbers, and Pony Express riders who spirits still inhabit dusty trails. Meet the men and women fiercely protective of their land and kin. Discover their loyalty. Marvel at their sacrifices. Learn about their deep passion for the animals that convey them; their magnificent horses. Sheehan's ode to Americana is on full display here.Tom Sheehan is also the author of these fine western books: The Nations, Where Skies Grow Wide, and Cross Trails.

As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt them down.

They gave him a badge. They didn't say they'd trust him. Sam Keaton is a lawman now. He's been cleared of wrongdoing and is doing the right thing. But he has trouble aplenty: an unsolved bank robbery, a double murder and... the fact the townspeople refuse to trust that he is on the right side of the law. The appearance of a group of renegades only makes life tougher. With the old west as a backdrop, the Sam Keaton novels are first and foremost mysteries, taking readers to authentic historical events just after the Civil War.

A western frontier adventure about bounty hunter Brandon Brogan. He has had a difficult life and as a bounty hunter he has made few friends. What few friends he has seem to be becoming fewer. He misses a life he remembers and sees a glance into the happiness he once knew in a single woman and her Indian child. Bringing in who he thought would be his last bounty he heads back east in search of the life much like the one he knew. Those plans briefly interrupted when the woman and child he had planned to take with him suddenly change their mind. Brogan finds himself again traveling alone and ...

In the vast and untamed land of the Lakota Sioux, a tribe that had thrived in harmony with nature for countless generations, a storm was brewing. Chief Matoskah, a wise and revered leader, found himself facing an unprecedented threat to the tribe's way of life. Alongside his loyal warrior leaders, Wambleeska and Tashunka, Chief Matoskah embarks on a desperate struggle to preserve their land and keep their sacred traditions alive. As the relentless tide of settlers, protected by U.S. Soldiers, encroached upon their ancestral territory, the Lakota Sioux face an existential crisis. Everything ...

Charles struggles to get two of his large investments started in America. Charles works in Kansas City and Orlando. Finding the right people for the job is turning out to be more of a challenge than he has experienced up to this time. Charles gets a disturbing message from Maurice Madison. The man he helped get the Indian Post job in the Dakotas. Gold has been found, and the natives are talking of war while the white miners flood onto Indian Reservation land. Charles gets involved to save Madison and his wife and is forced to visit Fort Abercrombie to rescue Maurice and his wife. Charles ...

Rye, a twenty-two-year-old veteran of the Texas Revolution, returns to the Republic of Texas in 1839 after three years of wandering. While traveling through Lost Maples Canyon he discovers a gold mine filled with rattlesnakes. After filing claim to the land, Rye sends word to his friend Kel, brother Darryl, and cousin Dennis who help him build the Lost Maples Ranch and operate the Rattlesnake Gold Mine. The four young cowboys become befuddled but enthusiastic fathers to Kara, a three-year-old Karankawa girl orphaned by the Comanche and rescue Heidi, a seventeen-year-old German immigrant who...

Charles escorts Rome, Alice, the kids, John, and Silvia to the different towns where he has ranches, hotels, and food stores. To Silvia’s dismay, John asked for training on running a pig farm. John argued that I get to live a short time in America and learn a valuable talent. Charles’ daughter, Judy, falls in love, and Judith steps in to calm him down when he is ready to destroy her suitor. After Rome and his family leave for England, Charles returns home and receives word that Denver is in trouble. An assassin plans to kill his son, C.W., and his family before going to California to ...

Sergeant First Michael Crane survived a brutal war, found himself mustered out a long way from home, and knew he would have to work hard to get there. He had help and he had the helpless, and whenever called up, he stepped up. Whatever the mysteries of life, he almost stumbled over the perfect woman, the love of his life, and the two made the trek home. But not without loss, pain, headaches and heartaches, and, of course happiness, but then, that makes a good story. Enjoy. #The Storyteller.

What would you do if gunshots woke you up in the middle of the night, endangering your family? Bullets whizzed through your tipi dangerously close to your baby son. But who’s attacking you? The Utah War ended without bloodshed. You’re building a new adobe home in peaceful Great Salt Lake City in 1859. Connal Lee and his spouses grabbed their weapons and rushed out to defend their family, camp, and friends from drunken soldiers from Fort Floyd. Other enemies, called Mormon Locusts, continued assaulting their construction camp. The huge Federal Army camped a day’s ride away had made the...