Western Wars

Bart Fulton feels compelled by fate to pin on a deputy’s badge in Arizona Territory’s Plain Creek. The young twenty-two-year old has drawn an almost impossible first challenge – putting an end to the evil and murderous ways of criminal Weed Meadows. Weed doesn’t bat an eye killing innocent people and threatening others. He wants to expand a silver mine he stole. To do that he’ll have to get land from two families, the Lees and the Rileys. There’s one problem – both families have been feuding for years. Bart knows about Weed’s nefarious plans. But convincing the Lees and the ...

During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne. In Haig's Enemy, Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war - the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare.

For Clint Beck, a quest to arrest Ruffen is also his chance at redemption. Rustling is a big problem for the God-fearing folks of Perryville in 1870. Not only that, but it’s now escalated with the killing of community pillar Jonas Davidson – a farmer, husband and father of five. The town screams for justice. As Perryville sheriff, Clint sets out to arrest the guilty parties. Almost everyone in the county knows that Clyde Ruffen and his gang are behind the heinous crime but… proving it is another story. Ruffen has spent thirty years learning how to hide his crimes and avoid the law. He...

Jude Andrews enjoys his quiet life, living by himself in a cabin by a lake, near prospector’s town Goldfield. He makes his living by selling fish, rabbits and small pelts. His family had been killed by an outlaw, Elliott, who was already dead. The law got him. Nancy Nelson is a nurse who has moved away from her home town, Teller City, due to the crimes in her area. She wants a fresh start and comes to Goldfield to visit her mother. One day, a man by the name of Frank visits Goldfield in hopes of finding gold. He has his men with him. Frank runs into Nancy’s mother and kills her because ...

Ever wonder what cadet life at West Point was like in the early days of the Academy prior to World War I? Through first-hand accounts and comprehensive historical research, author Robert C Richardson Jr. explores the origins of the United States Military Academy during the Revolutionary War and describes in intimate detail the four year cadet journey during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Covering topics from summer training and hazing to academics and social life, readers will learn how much has and hasn't changed over the years.Richardson himself was a 1904 USMA grad who would go on to ...

Just so it’s clear, I’m not the kind of woman who sleeps around. And I’m especially not the kind of woman who’d ever sell her body for money. At least, that’s not who I used to be. Now, I’m getting on my hands and knees at the orders of the stranger I suddenly call husband. I’m ashamed of what I’m doing. It’s dirty. Wrong. Twisted. And I refuse to acknowledge how good it feels. Especially in front of him.

The Civil War tore at the very roots of our nation and destroyed most of a generation. In rural Arkansas, the Hancocks were devastated by that war. They not only lost everything, but experienced an unimaginable hell. How does a traumatized human being put themselves back together? Where does a person begin to heal his or her broken mind…and does one choose damnation or redemption? For the Hancock siblings: Doc, Sarah, Butler, and Billy, the American frontier becomes a metaphor for the wilderness within—raw, and capable of being shaped.

STAR WARS MEETS JURASSIC PARK. Dinosaurs return to Earth from space — Now humans are the endangered species! Wildlife biologist Chase Armstrong and Montana rancher's daughter Kit Daniels find themselves in the center of a battle between US military forces and intelligent dinosaurs returning to Earth after 66 million years of absence. This book is a tour de force of near-future military science fiction pitting current day tanks and helicopters against advanced alien invaders from Earth's past! A human-sized, intelligent species of dinosaur, the Kra, strikes from a moon base, devastating ...

A Western novel set in Texas during the post-Civil War era. Step into the heart of a turbulent Texas where violence meets legacy in this gripping tale of a young man’s struggle for identity amidst the chaos of gunfighting. Buck Travis, a twenty-three-year-old torn between the shadow of his father's notorious past and his longing for a different life, finds himself thrust into a world of danger and deception after a deadly encounter with a rival gunfighter. As he battles against the ghosts of vengeance and turmoil, he discovers not just the brutal realities of frontier life, but the ...

From western writer Gary Church, author of the Johnny Black Western Adventure and Barlow Seeker of Justice series. March your way across the battlefields of the American Civil War and share adventure, pain and danger with Ellis Tucker and Gunnar Lund as they fight for survival against gunfire and disease, while Beatrice Hays waits at home for Tucker, her fiancée. In the next two years, the three will face a multitude of obstacles they must overcome if they are to survive and have a life after the war. From Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the battlefields of Virginia and on to San Francisco, ...

It takes true grit to build a billion-dollar dynasty like the Ford family ranch. But when it comes to finding love, all it takes is one handsome cowboy to steal a woman's heart. She's riding solo. As one of the heirs to the River Ranch fortune, Mia Ford is practically Texas royalty. But that doesn't mean she's some pampered princess. She can saddle up and ride a horse as well as any man, even a hard-working cowboy like Sam Mendes. For years, she's harbored a crush on the strong, silent horseman. But how can she make a move when she's his boss?

Buffalo Bill was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He thrilled audiences far and wide with his Wild West shows, and he showed the world that the characters they read about in dime novels and magazines were real flesh and blood people. For many, Buffalo Bill has become the embodiment of the wild frontier, and both his legacy and his spirit continues to live on.

A Southern war widow seeking to reinvent herself in the West. A Union cavalryman haunted by his deeds. Can they survive a thousand-mile journey beset by bandits and warring Sioux to discover a life together? After losing everything in the war, Annabelle sets out with her extended family on a wagon train for the goldfields in Montana. Helping to lead the way is Josey Angel, whose reputation as a notorious killer is belied by a thoughtful manner and wounded soul. A bond grows as they tend to the settlers’ needs—until secrets from Annabelle’s past provoke new dangers and the frontier ...

The abolitionist legacies of Orville Brown and his son, Spencer, live on in this historic and daring 19th-century account. Journeying apart from each other, but with similar passion, Orville and Spencer's stories span virtually every major abolitionist event: from the battles of Bleeding Kansas and the establishment of the free-soil movement to the river wars of Memphis, Vicksburg, and Shiloh. Listeners will follow Orville west as he strikes out for Kansas Territory to help ensure its entry as a free state.

William Shakespeare's gripping play showed Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot put together by Caesar's disaffected officers and designed with precision. Brutus and Cassius were indeed key players, but they had the help of a third man - Decimus. He was the mole in Caesar's entourage, one of Caesar's leading generals, and a lifelong friend.

Business. Violence. Concerns about profits. Questions of conscience. This is the untold story of the dealings between a US tire giant and Liberia’s Charles Taylor, the man who would become the first head of state convicted of crimes against humanity since the Nazi era.

A platoon of Marines and CIA operatives clash in a fight to the death with the drug lords and the Taliban, while in Washington, the president seeks a way out. This authentic war story vividly displays how a warrior must replenish his own moral courage and not allow ambition to coarsen his sense of decency.

"I was present at the Frog Lake Massacre and escaped by the slim margin of one hundred paces the fate that overtook my hapless fellows. For months afterward the unexpected report of a gun put my heart in my mouth, painted savages plunged in my dreams at early dawn through belts of dark firs upon my flying footsteps, bullets sang in my ears or found their mark in my flesh, and I awoke gasping and unable in the first few seconds of consciousness to convince myself that it was not all a horrible reality. Looking back on that now distant date and thinking over the flow of perilous turns in ...

Sawyer McCade came up tough and mean, trained as a killer for the Confederate Army. But those days are behind him now, and he’s eager to begin a new—and peaceful—chapter of his life back home in Kansas. His ranch is almost up and running, and his army buddies are on their way, driving a herd of cattle from the wilds of South Texas. He’s even more excited about the arrival of a girl he was sweet on down in Texas. Everything is falling into place. But halfway between Clarksville, Texas and Humboldt, Kansas. Sawyer gets word that his friends and the animals he's relying on for his new ...

Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale “crisis of democracy” — with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to the next — a new political-economic order was devised and the postwar social contract was torn up and written anew.