Western Indian Fiction

His last assignment gets complicated when a beautiful sharpshooter targets his heart. Beautiful Krissy Donovan, a student of Annie Oakley, is asked to put on a sharpshooting benefit for an orphanage. The trouble is, it’s half a continent away. Her father has promised her services, and she finds herself virtually alone in perilous Indian Territory. Krissy’s father realizes he has made a terrible mistake, but a cavalry scout, familiar with the savage land, is the only one who can protect Krissy now. Rough-and-tumble cavalry captain Johnny Houston resents being asked to take on this last ...

Rye Tyler wouldn't ignore the bounty on his family. But he also couldn't stay away from helping in any situation that could impact the West. He and his family were counted on so others could survive. That means battling an unknown winter epidemic to save a fort. Leading a wagon train through Sioux country. And fending off a man who wants Rye's wife - Blanche. Will it be just too much for the Tylers? There are plenty of twists and turns in the Old West in the fifth book of the Road through Hell series - Relentless.

A narrative of the unparalleled adventures of Matthew Brayton is compiled for the satisfaction of those who wished to preserve a memorial of his romantic history. Extraordinary as the incidents may appear, there is abundant proof of their entire truth. Living witnesses bear testimony to the circumstances of the mysterious loss of the hero, and his identity is established by incontrovertible proofs. Numerous circumstances also confirm the account given by him of his adventures during the 34 years spent among the Indians.

Patrick Flint feels a calling to volunteer at the impoverished Indian Health Services clinic on the Wind River Reservation that he can't completely explain. His wife Susanne usually supports him, but her family is coming for their first Wyoming visit, 12-year-old Perry is stir crazy and looking for trouble, teenager Trish is dangerously in love, and Suzanne and Patrick are in the final stages of negotiations on their dream house. The Christmas holidays are not a convenient time for him to be gone, or to be out of communication.

The seventh novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery series: Scarecrows are appearing in the cliffs above the Smith River in Montana, and state investigator Harold Little Feather is trying to discover the culprit leaving the hay figures in the cliffs, with signs painted that read "No Smith River Mine - Not on My Watch." The event is related to a copper mine project that threatens the river, but his investigation takes an ominous turn when a little girl claims that a scarecrow chased her in the night.

*This book is a continuation of Cut and Run, the first title in the Aspen Eyes Series.* Four years have passed since Rebecca’s first summer in Jackson, Wyoming. Her decision to settle on the Flying W was not without sacrifice, but she can’t imagine being any happier than she is right now. Her husband, Alec, provides her with everything she could ever want–namely, the love and respect she’s yearned for all her life. She’s never had a reason to feel insecure in their marriage. Then a beautiful stranger arrives in town, a woman with strong ties to the Westins…and a long history ...

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.

After a long day ridin’, ropin’, and sometimes rustlin’, cowpokes love to stop by a local saloon to wet their whistles. Card playing, loose talking, and fighting always ensued, some in good fun and others deadly serious. In this collection of stories, author Tom Sheehan rides and relaxes with them all. You’re in the right place for rollickingly good western yarns.

Thomas McCabe is on his way to a brilliant career as a lawyer when, in 1837, he gives everything up to take a job with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sent to live with a tribe in the wilds of Missouri, McCabe soon saves the life of a young brave. Subsequently, yet grudgingly, he is accepted by the Cheyenne, until he falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful, and betrothed, Night Bird Woman. Determined to marry her, McCabe must prove himself to the tribe.

One love-struck businessman; one compassionate Sioux maiden; one heart-wrenching decision. Is the power of love enough to save an entire tribe? Five years ago, when Edward James settled in Bear Creek to manage the mines, he saw a future of business and opportunity. He didn’t plan to fall in love. But since the moment he met Morning Sun, his world has been turned upside down. If only her family would accept him, he could be the devoted husband he longed to be, but how can he convince them that he’s worthy of Morning Sun’s love?

Another exciting adventure for this happy family comes about through their new friend Indy Roades, a former baseball player and a Yumatan Indian. He tells them about his pueblo in the mountains of New Mexico, and his tribe’s lost turquoise mine. When Mr. Hollister hears that a store there, called The Chapparal, which sells silver trinkets and Yumatan articles, is closing down, he considers buying the goods for his own shop, The Trading Post. He decides to go to New Mexico to examine the stock, and takes his family along with him.

Lawlessness casts a dark shadow over Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1909 as it adjusts to statehood. Bandits and businessmen alike struggle to adapt to life in the former Indian Territory and the Nations. Andrew J. McGrath returns from the Spanish-American War with a hidden case of shell shock. He resigns his commission after an unspeakable tragedy and turns to gambling. Ten years later, he is weary of danger from gamblers, corrupt officials, and bankers. A drunk cowboy and two friends attack McGrath after an all-night card game. He kills them with help from Bass Reeves, one of the first black US ...

What if you discovered yourself alone in the wilderness on the Overland Trail in 1857, wounded, weaponless, helpless? How would you react if, when you came to the following day, you found a young Shoshone medicine man and a cute Indian shaman girl tending your wounds? Connal Lee woke up that morning to a new life as a white Shoshone boy. Homesick for his brother and sister, his circumstances dictated he stay with the Shoshones until he made it to Great Salt Lake City. Raised in the Ozarks, educated while pushing a handcart across the country, the intelligent young teen adapted to another ...

Life has never been simple for Jennifer McBee. As if being shy and hard of hearing wasn’t enough, now Jennifer is faced with the humiliation of her failed wedding. Desperate to escape, Jennifer decides to leave heartbreak behind her and travels west to be with her brother, the pastor of a small Nebraska town called Daisy Creek. While her brother has hopes for her making some new friendships with the townsfolk of Daisy Creek, Jennifer still feels removed from the community of this close-knit town.

As a young man, Thomas F. Sheehan eagerly devoured the old stories of cowboys, cattle, canyons, and creeks that aided our American west-spread growth, much like those B&W giants of old western movies and their most unforgettable “B” type casts. These characters came alive for him as early heroes. As homage to the genre and those that created it, Sheehan writes his own tales of the frontier. And somewhere, Tom Mix is smiling...

The frontier tales of Kent Kamron take you back to the old west, circa 1860-1900, a time when ranchers, soldiers, and settlers made their place in history. The initial westward movement beyond the Mississippi crept into the rolling hills of Kansas and Nebraska, where the cattle towns gained notoriety. The next lands of opportunitybecame the open plains of the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming territories, a further invasion of the west, all which earned the termManifest Destiny.Along the way, cowboys pushed herds into unknown lands, railroadslaid the foundations for the cities to come, ranchers...

Author Tom Sheehan has stated that as a young man he owned five typewriters at one time. Inside each one were stories and fables, including many western yarns. Although he’s given up the typewriter for more modern technologies, Sheehan’s understanding of the mythic west in America remains as strong as a cowboy’s rope. Travel along, as those in the west traveled; on horseback, by stagecoach, and by wagon train, dust flying up into the face and dangers looming everywhere.

He came off the frontier: a buffalo hunter, a gambler, a loner. In Abilene, he won a saloon at cards and earned the fear of a lawless town. From then on, Jake Kincaid would not be stopped. He began a rampage of ambition and deal-making that forever changed a land called Kansas and the Indian Territories. But along the way, the deeds and misdeeds of Jake Kincaid affected more than the frontier - they shaped the lives of his two sons. One who became a lawman. One who became an outlaw. Both destined to come face-to-face behind blazing guns....

Left destitute and alone with her mother after her father abandoned them, Erin Saddler is shocked when she learns her mother has arranged for her to be a mail order bride to a Mr. Rich McNettle. But they are out of money, and marriage is their last chance for a stable life. So Erin agrees to travel west to wed this man she's never met. But when a stagecoach accident and a brave man step in to her destiny, she begins to believe that God has other plans for her.

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.