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The Hunt Series continues after graduation from the U.S. Marshal Services training. Hunt stops off in Kansas City while traveling to Denver and finds his friend, U.S. Deputy Marshal Burns shot by a sniper. Hunt gets permission to investigate and solve the crime before continuing on to Denver where he soon earns a reputation as a man that gets the job done by helping solve the murders of two U.S. Deputy Marshals and a string of other murders and robberies.

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Charles escorts the family from England around America and helps set him up at the Orlando orchard. While visiting his son, one of the young, hired hands is nearly beaten to death in town and robbed. With Clayton and the Sheriff’s help, they find and arrest the man guilty of the assault. Charles travels to Annapolis and discovers Hubert Phillips, owner of Transcontinental Railway, is on his deathbed. Charles decides to take over the company, contacts the other 8% of stock owners, and attempts to buy them out before planning to move the company to Philadelphia.

Hunt’s men are called to the town of Akron to resolve a murder of a ranch hand by a neighboring ranch owner’s son and prevent a range war. Traveling twenty miles to the train depot after the arrest allows the killer’s father time to gather his ranch hands and reach them before the train arrives to carry them to Denver. Deputy Asa Davis telegraphs Hunt and asks for help. A gun battle occurs prior to Hunt’s arrival resulting in the rancher and several of his cowhands being shot. Hunt gets an alarming telegram that bandits have attempted to steal many cattle from his Green Rive ranch ...

Hunt’s men are sent on a mission to find a wolf pack killing cattle, and any hunter sent to eliminate them is never seen again. Hunt begins to wonder if it’s the wolves that are doing the killing. Hunt loses one of his men while on the mission. Hunt’s Utah hotels and food stores begin to materialize when Hunt receives word from Richard Slater, his hotel manager in Salt Lake City. An arrogant lady friend informed him of the mayor’s wife’s plans to have the church leaders gather to pressure the Utah Territorial Governor to force the sale of the hotel and piano to the Mormon church ...

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 ...

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 ...

An inspiring saga of a young boy that becomes orphaned when when his English father and Chinese mother are murdered by a marauding war lord. Raised in China by Buddhist Monks, he is educated and trained in martial arts. At age 21 he signs on as a laborer aboard a cargo ship in exchange for a one way trip to America. At sea he and the other Chinese are forced into slavery and robbed of their personal possessions. After arriving in Boston he escapes after killing the cruel co-captain and travels west on foot as he encounters numerous hazards. He is tracked by a tough ex-sheriff turned bounty ...

Hunt’s recovery from the cougar attack is a grueling and uncertain journey. The fear of being forced into early retirement looms over him, while Earl, his mentor, gives him some extra time to recover before making any decisions about his Marshal career.Hunt’s recovery from the cougar attack is a grueling and uncertain journey. The fear of being forced into early retirement looms over him, while Earl, his mentor, gives him some extra time to recover before making any decisions about his Marshal career. During recovery, a man shows up who claims Hunt bought the home illegally, and he was ...

Charles takes his horse to sell in New Orleans. After a successful sale, Charles returns to find his racehorse had been abused in his absence. The horse had been ridden and beaten with a crop and was bleeding and barely able to stand. Charles files a complaint with the racing committee, and while completing paperwork for his complaint, Charles is notified that his horse collapses and dies. A lawsuit follows, and the ones responsible for the horse’s death meet with a hitman to arrange to have Charles and his attorney killed, forcing Charles to take drastic steps to protect his family. ...

An epic saga of a man named Huntley Porter, nicknamed "Hunt" at an early age. Hunt is the Sheriff in a small Tennessee town run and controlled by a ruthless Mayor that virtually owns the town. Hunt turns bounty hunter after he is fired for punching the Mayor in the nose and arresting the Mayor's son. Hunt tracks a man across the plains to the Missouri River and returns with a criminal that is on the run from the law. Hunt meets a U.S. Deputy Marshal during his journey and is recruited into the U.S. Marshal Service.

Hunt’s men travel to the gold fields of Colorado to resolve a murder and recover the stolen gold, which is bankrupting the gold mining company. Beth visits an orphanage and finds a young girl that she finds adorable. She talks to Hunt about adopting her. Hunt and Beth visit the orphanage and discover the orphanage is operated from a small cabin. Hunt leaves, determined to help the orphanage. Earl arrives from Chicago to discuss new upcoming laws passed by the Senators of Washington. Hunt and Earl travel to Topeka searching for his missing man, Kelly Morrison, and is surprised at what he ...

Charles and Judith’s life levels out, and Charles prepares his children to take over in his absence. Charles is notified that Doctor Connor Godfrey has visited the Denver Hospital and has spoken to Doctor Green. Spending winter at home was relaxing for Charles, and in the spring, Charles tries to convince Judith to accompany him and asks George and Coughing Crow to accompany them to England. George’s health has not been good, and he believes this may be his last chance to visit his homeland, but he is too sick to make the trip. Charles’ trip to England ends in a major purchase, and he...

Clay Rogers travels to Syracuse with Hunt to a livestock auction to ask his childhood sweetheart, Adelia Walker, to marry him, come to Topeka and live the life of a rancher’s wife. River, and live the winter while his home and ranch buildings are being built in Topeka. Beth’s healing is progressing, and a friendship has grown with the caretakers of the new home, James and Emma Duckworth. Hunt gets word of a livestock auction at Salisbury Township near Allentown, Pennsylvania, and 150 Clydesdale horses are being auctioned along with mules, military wagons, and tons of miscellaneous ...

Charles and Judith attend Judy’s graduation and escort her to West Chester University to begin her training as a music teacher. Judith insists on transferring Jonathan and Angus to Germantown Academy and that Charles accompanies her. Charles is called to Nashville to resolve an issue with a neighboring rancher who does not want a hog farm north of his ranch due to the wind blowing from the pig ranch across his ranch most days. While in Nashville, a local rancher’s son attempts to kill Charles for his jacket, knife, and horse. Trouble erupts, and after buying the father’s four farms to...

The Storm Warrior saga continues as Storm Warrior and the Sioux visit the fort and make friends with the whites. Storm Warrior plans to set up a school in the Sioux Valley with Judith Johansen as the teacher, the the Sioux's demand of surprising obstacles must first be overcome. Storm Warrior II is filled with action, battles, deaths, births, and the development of many life long friendships.

The trial against Julius Brown ends, and the three brothers travel with Hunt to Green River and are assigned to the farm. Hunt, Beth, Bethany, and Art travel to Chicago for Earl Jefferson and Lois Bonner’s wedding and then travel to the Thayer Water Stop in Indiana to visit Jr., Clover, and Mary. The family travels to Thayer Water stop in Indiana and accompanies Clover, Mary, and Jr. to an auction in Columbus, where the beauty and charm of Jamila Williamson sweeps Jr. off his feet. Hunt returns to Denver in time to send the men on a mission to track down a band of thieves, cattle rustlers...

Hunt’s life takes many new occurrences in this exciting volume. Hunt starts by losing a deputy to a brazen red-headed sixteen-year-old attractive girl that needs a husband to run her deceased parent’s ranch. Hunt gets a telegram from Clover that his son, Junior, has been spending too much time away from the farm, and the other workers are becoming upset. Hunt travels to Indiana to check on his son and discovers a shocking predicament. After traveling to Massachusetts to help a girl’s parents with a crooked judge and sheriff, Hunt is introduced to a man who owns 12,873 acres south of ...

Charles’s life progresses quietly for the next few months, and he spends more time at home with the family over the Christmas holiday. Charles’ wife, Judith heals from the gunshot while carrying a child that the doctors beg her to abort. Judith refuses and signs a paper saying she will give her life to save her child. Things in Charles’ life change, his businesses mature, construction is completed, and new projects begin. Clarence William Crawford will soon be graduating from Harvard Law School, and Charles is concerned about the law firms that are offering him a position. One law ...

This episode in Charles’ life entails two separate main events. First, Charles’ life involves finding and eliminating an elusive bandit that is determined to wipe out his entire family and take over his businesses. The second event involves saving the White House from foreign terrorists determined to kill the President, wipe out his cabinet, and as many senators and congressmen as possible. Charles begins this episode by spending two more days in Reno to act as the best man for Cedric Reed’s wedding. Charles returns home and is met by Colonel Absalom H. Markland. A Spanish foreign ...