Indian Western

Black, Buckskin, and Blue takes an in-depth look at African Americans who were scouts and soldiers on the United States western frontier during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explores the incidents and adventures black men were involved in during the westward movement as scouts and soldiers. Bypassing the radical hostilities they endured in frontier towns - well covered by other books - the author examines military incidents involving black soldiers and desperadoes, as well as certain critical military engagements in which they made important contributions. This book is ...

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! In tales from heart-warming to bone-chilling, authors from across the country take us back to the lives and times of the western frontier, where the new culture met the old and battles were fought, love born, and dreams achieved—or lost. This collection of the Tales voted Best by readers each month at www.FrontierTales.com, plus an Editor's Choice, make 13 wonderful stories of the Old West. Meet civil war soldiers, sheriffs, grifters and gunslingers, natives and ne'er-do-wells, and the women and men who pioneered this vast new land. ...

A woman on the run plus a lawman in hot pursuit equals passion hot enough to burn down the Wyoming mountainsides.Wyoming, 1870, Kiera Alden’s constant companions are trouble and woe. This Boston Blueblood has been in so many chancy situations she’s used to anxiety and stress, but her habitual fear is tiny compared to the fright she takes when she’s accused of murder. Desperate and unable to evade the relentless marshal hounding her every move, Kiera turns the tables and ambushes him, which only makes the lawman more determined to see her pay for her supposed crimes. Every outlaw’s ...

James White-Hawk Morgan has a trading post in the Mohawk River Valley in New York, and a fairly promising future. What he doesn’t have are friends in high places. . . like England. A business man like himself can prosper if he has the proper connections, so he seeks to remedy this deficit by travelling to London. . . and there he meets Lizzie Gardener, a pretty spinster with connections, but few prospects she will actually accept. There is an instant attraction between the English rose and the wilderness entrepreneur, yet their potential relationship is cut short when James receives news ...

The sequel to the bestseller “War Paint” Bear, Ty Fisher, and Jarel Wade team up in a new action-packed adventure. When the trio of mountain men catch wind of a Sioux plan to ambush the annual Fur Rendezvous supply wagon train, they spring into action. They know if the goods are lost, not only would it cost the lives of fifty men accompanying the wagons, but devastate the trappers counting on the much-needed supplies. Hoping to avoid the brewing conflict Bear arranges a meeting with the Sioux war chief, Hump. Bear learns the Sioux are being given guns by none other then “Red” ...

It’s 1806. A young republic just three decades old - the United States of America - is about to make a great push westward, across the Mississippi, into a wild, beautiful, and dangerous land. A territory of towering mountains and violent waters, of icy glaciers and searing deserts. The great northwest. It is a time and a place where fortunes will be made, destinies will be revealed, and legends will rise.

Set in the rugged frontier of the West, this unforgettable sequel to Janet Dailey's best selling novel The Proud and the Free begins when Lije Stuart, the handsome son of Temple and The Blade Stuart, returns to the Cherokee Nation after 4 years at Harvard. As the American Civil War rages across the country, the Stuarts, too, are torn apart by an old family feud.

In The Big Fifty, another name for the famous Sharps rifle, reality of frontier life becomes brutally clear to 12-year-old Coady McIlvain. He falls in with a buffalo sharpshooter, and the two must survive the unforgiving terrain and hostile enemies.

In September 1873, Elizabeth Coughlin, a widow bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, embarks on a buffalo hunt with her estranged and mysterious brother-in-law, Michael. With no money, no family, no job or security, she hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who depend on her. The buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving their land.

This Pueblo Indian myth explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.

After losing his parents, as well as his scalp as a youth, Hezekiah Daly set out for his revenge on the Comanche. He studied their ways until he was like one of them. Dedication to his task got him the name "Comanche Killer." He was spending his life tracking and hunting Comanche renegades, though he really didn't care if they were renegades or not. As he finished killing one band of renegades, he found two pioneer youths hiding close to where their parents were killed. In rescuing them, he felt responsible for their welfare. They also thought he was responsible for them. The twenty-years-...

In a riveting novel of love and adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself acting as translator for the famed Indian chief, Standing Bear. Young Jewish immigrant Julius comes of age surrounded by the wild world of 1867 Nebraska. He befriends the mysterious Prophet John, who saves his life when the two are captured by the Ponca Indian tribe. Living as a slave, Julius meets the noble chief Standing Bear and his young daughter, Prairie Flower, with whom he falls in love.

Limited time sale pricing. Normally $7.99 WILD COUNTRY Jeff Pickett didn’t even have enough money to buy himself a good warm winter coat when the dying gambler rode up to his campfire with an offer he couldn’t afford to refuse. The $10,000 in the wounded man’s saddlebags was his. And all he had to do to keep it was make sure the killers on the gambler’s trail didn’t get their hands on it. So Jeff Pickett rode off alone into wild country—Apache country—with $10,000 in his saddlebags and a dozen greedy outlaws on his trail. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A ...

This book takes place in the 1800s when the Native Americans were fighting for their way of life. During this time, many immigrants were arriving in America. This immigrant's name is Sheffy. He, too, had a dream of coming to America, and saved all his money to start a new life in the free world.

Chris Cameron is a young teen boy who sets out on his very first trip. Along the way he learns life lessons, how to handle a gun and he befriends a young Indian boy. All the while the mystery of a stolen goat and where she may be remains unsolved. For all young readers from ages 6-12.

Many Trails== A short story of Garrett Marshall while in Arizona in the 1870's. ***** The full life story of Garrett Marshall is in the novella "The Many Trails of Garrett Marshall." It is now available in eBook or paperback It includes the short story "Many Trails" Easy to read print. The hot Arizona sun was blazin’ down hard, real hard, burnin’ the rocks, the land and a man. A white man, layin’ flat on his belly on the rocks, burnt, tired and a mite scared. A lone white man, in the middle of ’pache country, layin’ there waitin’, waitin’ for three ’pache warriors he knew ...

The Austin Chronicles, Book 2: The Abilene Trail (Approximately 185 pages and 73,880 words) is the second in a series of novels about the Austin family and how they coped with the unique challenges of living in the West just after the end of America's Civil War in 1865. The main characters in this book are young Daniel Austin, his younger brother David and his grouchy but tough-as-steel uncle named Frank Austin. This book marks the start of their adventure traveling from Arkansas west to Oregon. While crossing the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the trio is robbed by a Frenchman ...

When Roma Nettles is saved from drowning by Gray Moon, a member of the Sioux tribe, she also finds her heart captured by this kind and handsome man. On her way to the town of Hill Song as a mail-order bride, she is devastated to learn that her husband-to-be, Harry Rinson, is a vile and vicious man. And as she learns more about John - as Gray Moon is known to the white man - she finds herself falling deeper in love with him.

Enjoy this sweet cowboy book by small-town romance author Erin K. Wright… He won’t allow anyone to run roughshod over his heart again… The rodeo circuit gave cowboy Dawson Blackhorse an escape after his racist boss destroyed every one of his dreams, making it clear no man who was part-Navajo would buy his ranch or court his daughter. But when the rodeo unexpectedly brings Dawson to the tiny mountain town of Sawyer, Idaho, he comes face to face with everything he lost. She’s never been able to forget the man who abandoned her... The quiet life Chloe leads is shattered the day Dawson ...

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! Frontier Tales is an online ezine dedicated to bringing new Western short stories into view. Each month, readers vote on their favorite Tale for that month. At the end of the year, there are 12 stories they have selected as the best. The editor then picks one more to make a total of thirteen, a baker's dozen. These are the winners from the fourth year of the ezine's production. Enjoy!