Indian Western

The mountain man loved the life and the rigors of the Rockies, facing the challenges that the high country and isolation threw at him, only to arrive home and find everything he had worked for had been taken by savages. With no law enforcement on the frontier to turn to for help, Tom sets out to save his family with one nagging question: Was he wrong to leave them unprotected while he eked out a living in the high peaks?

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...

Life in the rugged Appalachian Mountains of the 1860s was brutal but life in those treacherous hills had never been easy. A tough life breeds hardy people and the mountain people were as unforgiving and fierce as the mountains themselves. The old ways ran strong in their blood and hatred ran bone deep. Feuds were a part of life. The Robertson clan was a small but proud family. When a cherished member was needlessly shot down the grief-stricken Robertsons went to war against the family of her killers. The feud dragged on for years but their enemies were far too numerous. Fourteen year old ...

It’s 1868, the explosive and tenacious American West, only a few, exhausting years after the passing of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, and the 14th Amendment, ending discrimination. It’s also a period of other overwhelming and momentous matters. Like the start of the most rapid and extensive territorial expansion the country has ever known; like the formidable reconstruction period; like the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and the election to the Presidency of the celebrated Army General (and alcoholic) Ulysses S. Grant; like the Indian Wars, the Ku Klux Klan, the ...

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 ...

This comprehensive history sets yoga in its global cultural context for the first time. It leads us on a fascinating journey across the world, from arcane religious rituals and medieval body-magic, through muscular Christianity and the British Raj, to the Indian nationalist movement and the arrival of yoga in the 20th-century West. We discover how the practice reached its present-day ubiquity and how it became embedded in powerful social currents shaping the world's future.

Oli August is duty-bound to travel the 1849 frontier to prove that his brother-in-law was innocent of the charges of robbery and murder. The trip is fraught with danger and betrayal as he searches for truth on the Kansas plains.

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 ...

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.

Rusty Sabin was a child when Cheyenne Indians raided the Sabin homestead and killed his mother. Just before she died, she put a rawhide cord with a green scabbard around his neck. Raised by Spotted Antelope and Bitter Root, Rusty, now known as Red Hawk, refuses the compulsory and brutal initiation into the tribe when he is 15. Abandoned as dead by his Cheyenne family, Red Hawk takes the advice of a white trader and rides to Witherell, the nearest settlement of whites.

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 ...

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.

"This is the story of Mary Prince", who was sold into slavery at the age of 12 for £38 sterling. It is the first account of the life of a black woman ever to be published in the United Kingdom, and it was published at a time when slavery was still legal in the British Colonies. "The history of Mary Prince" is firsthand testimony of the brutalities of enslavement. Its tone is direct and authentic, which makes this vivid story go straight to the heart.

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 ...

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.

Eighth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent. In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and Indian’s didn’t kill you...the person sitting next to you in the saloon just might...just for the hell of it. This series is presented as self-contained standalone story novels that do not have to be read in any particular order. It gives readers an entertaining glimpse into what individuals from all walks of life encountered as they ...

Being a marshal is dangerous. Especially when the people who hired you may be the ones out to get you... Hired to guide a group through Sioux territory, Samuel has danger to the left and danger to the right. On top of that, he's trying to figure out who's gunning for him. Will he risk a growing bond with a young Sioux woman in order to save his life? 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.

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 ...

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.

In 1875, Indian Territory, in what is now the state of Oklahoma, was a haven for thieves, swindlers, and murderers, all trying to escape the reach of the law. When President U.S. Grant appointed Judge Isaac Parker judge of the Western District of Arkansas, which included the territory, Parker was intent upon bringing fugitives to justice. He authorized U.S. Marshal James Fagan to hire 200 deputy marshals to help police the 4,500 square mile lawless territory. Among those deputies was Bass Reeves. Born a slave in 1838, Reeves had spent the Civil War as a runaway in Indian Territory, and ...