Old West Adventure

Miles Kim, cyborg and relic of a war fading from memory, is on the last train ride of his life. When a gang of bandits attacks the train, Miles and 100 passengers find themselves trapped in in a standoff in the middle of the desert. But there’s more to the robbery than meets the eye. An unknown entity has set its sights on the Seraph Express and her passengers. As people start dying, Miles realizes that any rescue will be too late, and no one will make it out alive.

Jackson Chandler, a Union Army veteran, values Afton town’s calm and quiet as do most of the townsfolk. And Afton, in Kansas, wants no part of being a cattle town. Cattle, plentiful in Texas, have to be shipped back east to a hungry public, who couldn’t get enough beef. The closest railroad hubs are in Kansas. Texas drovers move massive herds through Indian Territory and into Kansas. Corrupt banker Morton Ludwig wants his share of the lucrative cattle trade and will do anything to make Afton a wide open yet violent cattle town. He has help from a vicious outlaw he employs, named Decker ...

In the town of Name Pending, Wyoming, Elijah Potbury does brisk business as the territory's only practicing necromancer. For a reasonable fee, he'll raise any friend or family member. Stories contained in this volume: "The Automatons Who Ate Lead": After convincing Potbury to resurrect two disembodied brains that are to be transplanted into automatons, the diabolical Mr. Seven uses them to kidnap Miss Henrietta. Potbury, with the help of his faithful gun hand, the late Nat McGrue, does everything in his power to thwart the scheming airship owner. "The Hatching of the Wolf Spider": The Wolf ...

The Ladies Aid Society is determined to find brides for the bachelors who have moved to their town in the last two or three years. Their first attempt is for Angus Kelly, a red-haired giant of an Irishman. The society members have written to all their old friends across the country, and one willing respondent seems to be perfect for Angus: Nessa O’Shea. At the same time, Detectives Deacon Snow and his brother have been hired by a bank in Rawlins to search for the criminals who stole a shipment of newly minted gold coins intended for three different banks. On the way to the San Francisco ...

Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt - and in danger of foreclosure. Early's uncle, Jesse, thinks he has the solution: to head West and dig for gold. Fueled by reports of prospectors striking it rich in the Rocky Mountains, Jesse can't think about anything but gold. Early is wild to go with him, as much for the adventure as for the gold. But the journey costs money - more than the boys can afford....

Luke Jensen has seen some sorry-looking bounties in his time, but this one takes the cake. A wanted poster is offering a reward of one dollar and 42 cents - plus one busted harmonica - to capture Three-Fingered Jack McKinney. Turns out, McKinney's 12-year-old son Aaron wants revenge on his daddy for abandoning him and his mom. The reward is all the money Aaron can scrape together. Luke can't say no to the poor boy - or his beautiful mother - so he agrees to go after McKinney and his bank-robbing gang.

This is a collection of my adult stories that have had the most Kindle downloads in recent months, along with tales I have polished and added to during the past year. Intended for readers age eighteen and over, it consists of an entertaining mixture of horror, thriller, Old West adventure, adult fantasy, action, and of course the occasional killing. Chapter 1 - Beacon Boarding & Bordello - Page 5 Three young women are abducted by a group of sexual predators. One is a violent psychopath and serial killer. Chapter 2 - Six-Gun Saloon Girls – Page 80 The Six-Gun Saloon, a gambling-whorehouse,...

Two friends committed to one another and their destiny of exploring the wilderness known as French Louisiana. A land that would soon become the Louisiana Purchase and a part of the growing nation of the United Colonies. But another man, wealthy, influential, and vindictive, is determined to see Gabriel Stonecroft pay the ultimate price for the death of his son, a ne'er-do-well troublemaker who surrendered his life in a duel with Stonecroft. After a perilous journey down the Ohio River aboard a flatboat, the two friends now set out to explore the West.

Louisiana Territory had been the exclusive domain of Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, seeking to fill their larders with the riches of the uncharted wilderness. But into that territory came two friends, determined to explore and learn about this vast land, land that had seldom if ever had the footprint of a White man. With their journey already taking them through the lands of the Shawnee, Osage, Pawnee, Omaha, and more, they have finally come within sight of the Rocky Mountains, but their way is blocked by the Plains tribes of Arapaho, Ute, Shoshoni, Crow, and others.

He upholds the law, until the law is held in utter contempt. U.S. Marshal Wade Nelson’s stint in the Union Army and no-nonsense approach to law enforcement makes him a natural fit for his position. When a night has gone lawless to become known as the Bandera Massacre, starting with the death of a sheriff, Wade saddles up. Law and lawlessness cannot co-exist. The Bateman Gang inflicts great evil and suffering in both Texas and the Indian Territory. They terrorize. They think they are soldiers. They see everyone else as ‘outsiders’. Little is known about the gang, except that: 1- they ...

Now that the children are safe and Matt Watchman and his two employees set out in search of their wives and the Indians who have kidnapped them, he finds help in that endeavor from the most unexpected source.

The cowboy is an iconic figure in American culture. With his hat, boots, and trusty horse, the cowboy rides in at a moment of crisis to intervene against the forces of evil. In the 20th century, the cowboy of the Wild West took center stage in the realm of popular literature.

Hewey Calloway is between a rock and a hard place: The open range and simple life of his childhood are disappearing. He can't live a cowboy life whose time has passed and he's not ready yet for the new challenges of the 20th century, like automobiles, telephones, and barbed wire fences. He and his friends, all of them good old boys, must learn that even the best choices involve some kind of sacrifice.

Edited and Corrected Wade Garrison took his vengeance against the men who took the life of his unborn child and tried to kill his wife and son. When the last man was dead from Wade's Sharps Rifle, he took off his badge and rode out of Harper, Colorado a wanted man disappearing into the Montana Territory.

Six award-winning authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Old West Collection. Listeners will love this collection of six historical western novellas, all with one thing in common: Romance.

OMG! Now it’s my turn… I’d heard about it, but I never believed it could be true… sorority house triple dare! Even before I took the blindfold off, I knew something was up. I can’t believe who my sorority sisters want me to mud wrestle… but I admit I’m thrilled that I have to taken on the football team all-stars… five big rough young hunks at once! Just my luck I’d drawn the scarlet card… or was it? These young sorority ladies are at it again… and this time their target is freshman coed Lexi Leighton! Lexi is the newest competitor chosen by a draw in her sorority house...

Helen and Frank Schreider's dream was to drive the length of the Americas; from the town of Circle, Alaska (just outside the Arctic Circle), to the world's southernmost town, Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego. With their German shepherd Dinah along for the ride, they were the first people in history to have made this trip.

Lawbreaker Webb Cousins is headed for a short trial and a long stretch in jail. A bounty hunter has him cuffed and covered, with no chance of escape. But when the prisoner and his captor ride into the town of Wagon Mound, death rides with them. In a flash of rifle fire and a spray of blood, Cousins finds himself shackled to a dead man—and unwittingly caught up in a murderous range war he wants nothing to do with. To ride away a free man will take more than breaking his bonds. He'll have to wage a one-man battle against two bitter enemies locked in a vicious cycle of vengeance and cruelty.

When Kenna Scott finds herself broke and alone, she risks everything and takes a job that will set her up financially for life. She won’t be rich, but at least she’ll never have to worry about starving to death or not having a roof over her head. The wilful, independent junior lab technician from Chicago knows the job she signed up for is way over her pay grade: Time travel – she had no idea it was even possible before she agreed to this mission. Kenna travels back to the Old West to find an engineer who has vanished from a base located near the bustling town of Forest Hills. But when...

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. ...