Bøker av MD Beloin

Sam Balinger was raised on a Texas cattle ranch, but his love of 'mechanical things' drove him to work in a gun shop that specialized in fabricating small gun parts. After moving on, he worked as a railroad detective and amassed a small fortune from collecting bounties on the outlaws he brought to justice. Falling in love with a friend from high school, the couple trained for eight months in a Texas applied science college. Returning to Dallas, the Duo bought a metal machine shop, and converted it to a brass cartridge fabrication plant and an ammo loading center. There is plenty of gunfights, jungle warfare, romance, and American ingenuity. The message is "friends can become lovers and build a future."

This book extends the cowboy era from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. After a profitable but dangerous time as a railroad marshal, Sam returns to his hometown and marries his old high school classmate and friend-and proves that friends can be lovers. Working together, they bought a five man shop and built it up to a factory with 150 mixed men and women workers. They started building brass cartridges, designed a loading press, started making loaded ammo, and joined the revolution in handguns-the semi-automatic pistol.

Like his other publications, this book follows a story line that ranges from the early years, the lawman or bounty hunting years, finding a soulmate, and settling down after they hang-up their guns. A dynamic couple goes on the trail to rescue kidnapped victims in the Colorado mining districts. After putting an end to organized abduction of rich miner's wives, they settle down and follow their lifelong dream-establishing a crop farm and a gold mine.

The author is a retired medical doctor who shares his retirement with his wife of 51 years. Summers are spent in Vermont with their children and families, and winters in the Texas Rio Grande Valley with friends. This author enjoys writing about the modernizing and changing times of the Western culture before the 1900's. Like his other Western fictions, he incorporates plenty of gun action during violent times, as well as adding a twist to every story.

This book takes place in the late 1880's with half of the book covering bounty hunting by three men who travel from capers by railroad travel. There is plenty of shooting and western adventure. As is common, the hero makes contact with an old classmate and falls in love. The last portion of the book covers the commercial raising of hogs for pork meat with the advent of refrigeration and the tin can. The entrepreneurship is well explained-as life was a century ago.

This is the 9th book in this series depicting life on the western front, after railroads and inside plumbing but before the automobile and the industrial revolution. The first half of this book, like his others, depicts the hard and dangerous life of a bounty hunter turned US Marshal. The second half covers his newfound romantic life and an early retirement from 'living by the gun.' The new Duo delves into raising horses for riding, working, racing, and raising crops to feed these 300 horses. There is plenty of action, intrigue, romance, historical facts for the gun and horse lovers and anyone who enjoys a darn good story.

Unlike his many books on bounty hunting and lawmen, the main character develops an agency specializing in security, protection and investigations. While working for his customers, he amasses a small fortune. In a short time, he met a woman who became his friend, partner and eventually his lover. Together they built their financial empire. This led to buying a silver/gold mine and opening a retail emporium. It has plenty of shooting, action, comedy, romance and detailed explanations involving underground mining as well as establishing a retail enterprise.

This book, like my other Western fiction books circa 1890's, is my first sequel. It follows the primary story of Jake and Hannah Harrison. Jake is a US Marshal who changes his destiny to become a progressive rancher, develops a crossbreed herd, starts a large crop enterprise, and becomes an oil baron. Hannah is an old chicken farmer who becomes a writer of Western fiction and joins Jake in his many endeavors. There is plenty of action, shooting, intrigue, romance and interconnected by-lines. It will interest all of my readers who enjoy reading about the old west before the industrial revolution.

This story covers Cal's early years as a bounty hunter in 1880, followed by a period as a special Deputy US Marshal. During these times, he starts his victims fund to support the victims of violent crimes. While on assignment to protect a victimized widow, he falls in love and marries. Over the next year, they develop three business ventures-a sheep farm, a commercial crop enterprise, and a private security agency. Throughout these times, the story provides action, cowboy shooting, romance, and business specifics. The book will appeal to all genders, ages, and especially to enthusiasts who like the late years in the Old West, before the 1900s.

This book covers the story of two Texans from different backgrounds during the 1880s-Max, a successful bounty hunter and now a legendary savior of kidnapped women, and Sylvia, an olericulturist at heart who moves to South Texas to enjoy a year-round growing season. The two meet, and in no time, they are both in for the fight of their lives. When the trauma resolves, they fall in love and delve in the development of a national brand of canned vegetables. The story is spread over a generational time frame. It's a fast-moving cowboy action and romance with informative interludes-to explain the growing and marketing of vegetables into the nineteenth century. This is Western fiction that will appeal to all Western readers.

Paladin Duos is another fiction that presents the dangers and life- style of bounty hunters. In this book, the bounty hunter takes a partner, a woman who quickly becomes an equal. After several escapades, the ultimate caper takes the heroine into undercover. After a long period on the trail the inevitable occurs. The duo decides to retire and start two business enterprises. The businesses described show another form of entrepreneurship for the times. The book has gunfights, adventure, romance and the intrigue of starting a business in the 1880's.

This current book is a work of Western fiction circa 1880s. It follows the development of a young man from his early years to a full-fledged rancher. After a career change, he became a deputy sheriff and an occasional bounty hunter. Because of his special gifts, he became a paladin bounty hunter, capturing the worst evil murderers and bringing them to justice-dead or alive. After marrying a modern schoolteacher, he settled down on the family ranch and converted it to a commercial crop harvesting enterprise, using the implements of the times. The story provides the modern day-to-day experiences of those living in the American West during the 1880s, before the industrial revolution. It has plenty of gunplay, romance, and action to keep all readers of Western fiction interested to the end.

Searching for a new challenge in the shooting sports, a dynamic couple, who are experienced cowboy action shooters, entertain five developing new cowboy shooting games at their local cowboy clubcowboy fast draw, wild bunch, cowboy silhouettes (rifle and pistol), and cowboy long range. Each game involves gearing up with new guns, learning proper techniques, and practicing till proficient. After mastering each sport, their next step is to recruit and train a group of cowboy shooters for the purpose of upgrading everyone to competition status. Each new game is presented as a mixture of real information integrated with the real lives of this spirited and energetic couple. Cowboy Games will appeal to anyone who likes to read about a new shooting sport and how to do it right.