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Mountain man and man hunter, Israel Pope was a calm, forgiving man. But attack him or his family and he became an efficient, stone cold killer.Pope started out as a river boater, fur trapper, scout, wagon train master, horse rancher and bounty hunter - later in life he became a member of the Kiowa tribe with the name Bear Fighter. Men and bears fell to his Bowie knife, rifle and tomahawk. A blood brother to the Kiowa's, he was a legend throughout the West."G. Wayne Tilman is a remarkable writer about the Old West. You can taste the authenticity he serves up in each tale."
FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ROBERT VAUGHAN COMES A WESTERN FICTION NOVEL OF DETERMINATION, OBSTACLES, AND LOVE.Gabe Hansen is determined to build a railroad from Albuquerque to the Pacific Ocean, but first, he must deal with two major adversaries.One is Bernardo Tafoya, a Mexican who does all he can to prevent the railroad from coming through land that his family holds by virtue of an old Spanish land grant. The other obstacle to the railroad is Peter Van Zandt, son of Emory Van Zandt, the financier who is backing the railroad. Peter wants to get control of the railroad for himself.Makenna O'Shea is a beautiful young woman who becomes a surprisingly strong ally, falling in love with Gabe in the process. Makenna is forced to make a decision that saves the railroad, but at the expense of her relationship with Gabe.
"It is a long and treacherous journey to the mountains. Some braved the dangers to escape the sure death from a rich and powerful man, while others were looking for the freedom they have never known. For some it was a job, a job that paid much better than working in Saint Louis, as others hoped to find their riches in the fur trade ... Gabe and his new wife Jenny ... had to escape the reaches of a father seeking vengeance. ... Toby and Letty ... were running toward freedom they did not understand. Zach Connors--better known as Grizzly Killer--and his partners made the trip to Rendezvous to trade for supplies that Gabe and Toby were helping bring to the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, while their wives Jenny and Letty followed behind in a lone wagon. The question they are all asking: will they find their own Sacred Ground?"--Back cover.
SADDLE UP FOR A HARD RIDE IN THE WILD WEST. Yakima Henry has been dealt more than his share of trouble - even for a half-white, half-Indian in the west. Now he's running a small Arizona horse ranch with his longtime love, Faith, and thinks he may have finally found his share of peace and prosperity. But a man from both their pasts is coming - with vengeance on his mind. "Hooks you instantly with sin-soaked villains and a compelling hero. Yakima Henry has a heart of gold and an Arkansas toothpick." - Mike Baron, author of Florida Man.
Meet Cord McGavin, lone wolf investigator assigned to a special operations unit of the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division. McGavin's beat: the mean streets of this sprawling, violent metropolis ravaged by war.
Concho Ten-Wolves is a Texas Ranger working the Rio Grande border between Mexico and the U.S.. The only path Concho can see is straight ahead and through.
LOVELY LADIES, EXTREME WEALTH AND INCREDIBLE DANGER IN THE AMERICAN OLD WEST!An outlaw gang is ravaging the small White Pine County mining camp of Ward, Nevada. The sheriff is grievously wounded in a battle with the gang and puts out the call to near-by counties for help.Eureka County Deputy Sheriff Terrence Corcoran responds. Corcoran finds a community needing help but not helping and discovers far more criminal activity than he rode to help with."You will find yourselves completely engrossed from beginning to end, and unable to put the story aside until the final paragraph has been read."
"For anthropology graduate student Sam Delgado, headed to the wilds of Wyoming, this is his last chance to save his graduate career. He and his urban classmates see this as the adventure of a lifetime: They are going to horse-pack in the wilderness to map and test a high-altitude archaeological site. Until a cyber attack collapses the American banking system, and an already fractured nation descends into anarchy and chaos. All credit frozen, Sam and his archaeological field school is trapped in their high-altitude camp. With return to the East impossible, Sam, the woman he has come to love, and the rest of the students must rely on hard-bitten Wyoming ranchers for their very survival."--Page 4 of cover.
ONE HELL OF A BLOOD-SPLASHED, ROUGH WESTERN TALE. Yakima Henry, half Indian and half white, ventures south of the border to save an old flame's brother from a Mexican prison - only to incur the wrath of deadly Apaches, scalp-hunting Rurales, and zealous revolutionaries."In the realm of slam-bang action writing in the Old West, the rest of us can't hold a candle to Peter Brandvold."-J. Lee Butts, author of Lawdog.
LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY, CRUDE, AND ALWAYS UNPREDICATABLE - MIKE BARON DELIVERS BOOK THREE IN THE FLORIDA MAN SERIES.As Gary and Krystal drag Prince Larry and Princess Regan, through the mud, a snapping turtle latches on to the prince's manhood and a debate breaks out on whether to release the video.Will it help or hurt the Royal Ducats?Gary brawls with a man in a bunny suit at Wacky World. Venezuelans use Gary's property for drug deals. Legendary dadaist Claude Balls stuns the world with his creations. Leotis, a giant Mekong catfish, becomes Gary's friend and advisor, but only Gary can see the painfully shy Leotis - perhaps it was that cane toad Gary licked. Krystal trains to fight Lucha Libre sensation Javelina."It's completely unpredictable, loaded with laughs and action, and it's a blast to read!"
When you steal from people who pull the trigger instead of calling the law, you'd better be good at it. Bruder is the best.Bruder is a career master thief, an apex predator hijacker who takes what he wants from people who would never turn to the cops for help. His jobs are planned down to the second, pulled off with a professional crew he knows and trusts.And all of that doesn't mean a damn thing when the plan makes first contact with the job...When Bruder sees the chance to steal a couple million in untraceable Wall Street bonus cash, he moves fast to scout the job and put the crew and plan together.But the money belongs to a group of people you don't steal from-ever. The heist turns into a bloody killing ground, testing loyalties and pushing Bruder's abilities and instincts to the brink. And whoever holds the money will owe a debt that must be paid in blood, a debt telling Bruder exactly how much his life is worth.The Wrench is the first book in the gritty Bruder Heist Novels. If you like professional hard case criminals with a relentless focus on pulling off the job and getting away with it, join the crew and buckle up.
"In The Plains the story of John Tylor continues. Tylor thought he was finally free of pursuit as he headed out into the Great Plains. Turns out he's the most wanted man beyond the frontier--and half the world is on his trail. Not only has Fenway McKeever survived, but he enlists a couple of British agents along with a party of angry Arapaho in his pursuit of Tylor. Chief Gray Bear, he finally has his rifles! But keeping them when every tribe on the Northern Plains wants him dead is going to take every bit of skill and luck his small band has. Cut off from the rest, Tylor finds himself accidentally and uncomfortably married to young Singing Lark. As the Blackfeet, Arapaho, and Fenway McKeever close in, so, too, does a dedicated young Toby Johnson. Toby's been sent by Andrew Jackson to bring Tylor back alive or dead, and he'll die before he fails his general."--Gear-gear.com.
She was a beautiful European-trained songstress living the good life, well paid for her talent, traveling from town to town seeing the west...until Louie Bowen and his gang of misfits robbed her stage.Suddenly, ransom looked like the real take from the job. It was haul her to Mexico to await the big payday. But Elizabeth Anne Graystone wasn't the wilting violet most thought a lady should be. This songbird had a stinger, and a handful of tough Irish kin who'd ride to hell and back and damn near did to rescue the lady.
It started out as a silly idea to bring buyers back to Abilene. Wrangle some buffalo, put them on a train, and ship them to Chicago so folks back east could see the massive, shaggy beasts with their own eyes. The concept seemed sound. What could go wrong?But for John Creed, agent for the famed Faraday Security Service, it was anything but simple. First, Hank Miles was willing to do whatever was required to prevent the plan from succeeding. Hiding in the shadows was a silent partner. Creed's biggest threat, however, came from the man in black-an assassin who took pleasure in his work and would not stop coming until the job was complete.Before the Buffalo Train reached the end of the line, guns would roar, men would die, and Chicago would get a taste of what the "Wild West" was really like.
The autobiographical thoughts of award-winning author Robert Vaughan, start with his childhood, including a 71-year grudge against a bad call in a Little League Baseball game. Spanning across his time in the army, first as an enlisted man, to include his time as an aircraft maintenance instructor in the Army Aviation School at Rucker during which time he once wrestled a bear, and his time in Korea from a poignant Christmas, to finding an abandoned baby.His military experiences also cover his time as a warrant officer, serving at Ft. Campbell, in Germany, where he engaged in a "slapping contest" with a German, three combat tours in Vietnam, including landing on a mine, being temporarily blinded, and scrounging a staff car from the Navy.After leaving the army, Vaughan had a short, but active television career, from which he was fired for handcuffing the weather girl to a desk during a live broadcast. His TV career was followed by a stint of owning and publishing a newspaper, then, becoming a full time novelist with nearly 400 books published, including seven New York Times best-sellers. During his writing career, Vaughan was arrested by the FBI as a part of one of his books was read into the Watergate Hearings.The book is told, not in numbered chapters, but in a series of titled vignettes.
STRAP IN FOR A WILD RIDE! Wells Fargo detectives John Pope and Sarah Watson are on loan to the Secretary of War and the Attorney General. There is a conspiracy against the President, and no one knows who to trust, so they hired outside for the best.Guns blaze and knives flash as the two develop and follow leads in Washington and around the country. They find sedition and assassination are very different from solving stage robberies.Will the two detectives be left standing when the last shot is fired?
Everybody knows: When you want to steal fourteen million dollars from a group of Romanian thugs, you go to Iowa.That's exactly what Bruder and his crew are going to do, and they figure the hardest part will be getting into the gang's armored car and grabbing the cash without getting shot.They're dead wrong.Because first they have to scout the job and get in tight with a local-somebody expendable who can give them the information they need. But when one of the men gets wrapped in so tight he starts popping loose ends, Bruder has to make a call: Who's more of a threat, the Romanians, or his own crew?He'll find out when the gang boxes Bruder and the others in, cutting off the few roads out of town and hunting-farm to farm, house to house, room to room.It's only a matter of time before the Romanians get their shot at vengeance on the crew. But shooting at Bruder hasn't worked out well for anybody...so far. The Box is the second book in the gritty Bruder Heist Novels. If you like professional hard case criminals with a relentless focus on pulling off the big heist and getting away with it, join the crew and buckle up.
When sixteen- year-old Troy Elliot's father, mother, and sister are killed, he is shot and left for dead. But he doesn't die, and over the next six years he starts a campaign of revenge. His campaign accounts for all but one of the men who broke into the house that night. He has not found the leader, because Troy never got a look at him. Now, as a shotgun guard for Wells Fargo, Troy's quest for vengeance is interrupted when he is framed for the murder of his driver, Rice Pendleton.Rice Pendleton is the father of Alexandria Pendleton, a beautiful woman stagecoach driver. Troy is attracted to Alex, but the false charge of murder stands between them.Troy is forced to take up the outlaw trail until he is able to clear his name, deliver justice to the leader of the men who killed his family, and win the hand of the comely Alex Pendleton.
Jacoba and Charlie DeGroot come west intent on homesteading on the newly opened Coeur d' Alene Indian Reservation. Providing Charlie's name is drawn in the land lottery, that is. But on sign-up day, a head-on collision between two trains nearly derails their plans. While Charlie is dreadfully injured, a man appears out of nowhere and saves Jacoba. Friction between the newlyweds arises when Jacoba's name is drawn in the lottery instead of Charlie's. During the winter, as Charlie heals, Jacoba labors to make ends meet. When at last Charlie can function, he moves to the homestead by himself while Jacoba stays behind to work and keep money coming in. But is Charlie really working for the benefit of them both? That is the question that plagues Jacoba. On a visit to the homestead, she discovers nothing has been accomplished. No cabin built, no land cleared, an expensive team of horses neglected. It's when she decides to move to the site herself that matters come to a head. Her husband has changed, and not for the better. Now there's a question Jacoba has to ask herself. "Is this piece of ground worth dying for?"
In an attempt to soothe growing Cold War tensions between America and Russia, Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the US to see all that his "enemy" has to offer. Top of his to-do list? A trip to Disneyland and an introduction to sexual icon Marilyn Monroe. Thanks to the impossible security requirements, Disneyland is out of the question. Marilyn, on the other hand, jumps at the chance to put on a show for the Russian official. During her appearance, she overhears the details of an assassination plot designed to spark an atomic holocaust and devastate both superpowers. When the Secret Service refuses to believe her, Marilyn risks everything to whisk Khrushchev away to safety-in the happiest place on earth. With US agents and the KGB hot on their trail, Marilyn and Khrushchev enjoy the thrills of the amusement park while fighting to stay one step ahead of the assassins and prevent the horrors of an unprecedented war that would annihilate millions. "Historical fiction, thriller and comedy rolled into one book. It was a page turner - I couldn't put it down."
"Yakima Henry left his ranch in the White Mountains for supplies and rode right into a bloody shootout between Saber Creek townsfolk and a gang of banditos who just robbed a stagecoach. But what really riles Yakima is the banditos making off with his prized stallion, Wolf, and a pretty saloon girl" -- Back cover.
SADDLE UP FOR THE WILDEST, SEXIEST, BLOODIEST PETER BRANDVOLD SERIES YET!Half Indian and half white, Yakima Henry considers himself lucky to have any job - even if it means just sweeping up the local brothel.But when four hombres attempt to carve up one of the house girls, Yakima gives them a taste of their own medicine with his Arkansas Toothpick. Now, he's become the girl's protector, and is on the run from a vicious bounty hunter. "Hooks you instantly with sin-soaked villains and a compelling hero. Yakima Henry has a heart of gold and an Arkansas toothpick." - Mike Baron, author of Florida Man.
HAS THE TRAGEDY BETWEEN TWO LOVERS OPENED A GATEWAY FROM THE PAST?A young waitress vanishes after work in the popular tourist town of Tombstone - she's not the first and she won't be the last to disappear without a trace from the dusty Old West streets.At the same time, Cheryl, a tourism management student, is bothered by terrible visions about a soiled dove and the rowdy past of the very same silver boom town. Are the two cases connected?Cheryl must find out what happens in the historic Bird Cage Theatre after the daytime tourists leave and night falls over the town and if the demons of yesteryear will walk the streets of Tombstone again.
Joyce Lackey was a classic baby-boomer. She had it all: a high-paying position, a beautiful condo, a BMW. But there was one thing she didn't have any more - her youth, and that was what she needed most.Her boss fired her because he wanted someone with "young blood and young ideas." Joyce was forced to start all over again. But could she compete with all the beautiful young kids who were so hungry for what she had? The X-Gen Agency could give Joyce everything she wanted, everything she needed - a new job, a new body and a new identity. In short: a new life, but there was a price. It seemed reasonable enough when Joyce signed the contracts, and besides, she was desperate. By the time she realized what she had done, it was too late to turn back. This was one contract without an escape clause..."A clever, twisted generational thriller that fictionalizes the brewing Boomers vs. Gen X-ers conflict in the workplace and in society at large."
The south country beckoned, and Gabe and Ezra answered.It was nothing more than a re-supply trip to Santa Fe, but an encounter with the Tabeguache Ute and the Caputa Ute changed the course of their journey. It wasn't until they came upon the massacre at a Mexican Hacienda and the subsequent attack from a rampaging band of renegade Jicarilla Apache, that they would uncover a prospering trade in captives and slaves that would raise the ire of both Gabe and Ezra.When a garrison of Mexican Soldados and one particular officer intervenes, things are not as they would first appear. Their purpose was derailed when an unexpected ambush by Apache would prompt a rescue expedition. When all is complicated by the intervention of slave traders, Comancheros, and the perpetrators masking as Mexican Soldados, only then does a simple re-supply journey become a vengeance quest, and all the blood that would flow would not be Apache!This historical western series will have you gasping for air and capture your heart.
A story that crosses oceans and continents from before the Civil War to the years just before World War II, a uniquely American story. Ranald MacKenzie can do anything, at least that's how it seems to friend and foe alike. From Bull Run to Appomattox, the tireless and endlessly resourceful MacKenzie marches from one victory to the next, no matter how seemingly impossible the assignment. Promoted to general at only 24, he seems impervious to pain and incapable of failure. When the Civil War ends, MacKenzie's reputation shines even brighter when he is assigned to the Plains Indian Wars to take on the invincible Comanche led by their great war chief Quanah. But there is a price to be paid for 25 years of almost constant and always brutal warfare...Based on the real-life story of Ranald MacKenzie, whose eventual illness - possibly PTSD almost a century before anyone knew what that was - and terrible end saw him virtually erased from the pages of history; a bare mention, when he is mentioned at all.
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