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Red River Valley, 1869. Hordes of ex-Confederate soldiers have emerged from the piney hills and swamps of the Lousiana backcountry in a final, bloody show of defiance. Captain Douglas Owens of the 4th Calvary is ordered to reclaim the God-forsaken land from its murderous outlaw gangs. By his side is Huff, a former slave, and Basil Dubose, an ex-Rebel gunslinger for hire. With his options dwindling, Owens takes a squad of soldiers under his command...

When his own land is stolen out from under him and the law will do nothing about it, Wilson Young straps on his gun and sets out to take the law into his own hands.

"In prohibition-era Southern California, real life detectives Charles D. Siringo and Dashiell Hammett must solve a mystery involving a ruthless politician--Joseph P. Kennedy. With sharp dialogue and rich historical background, Ragtime Cowboys is an exciting, suspenseful tale in which the Old West and Hollywood collide. Los Angeles, 1921: Ex-Pinkerton Charlie Siringo is living in quiet retirement when Wyatt Earp knocks on his door and asks him to track...

To save Jack Hare from Dene's outlaw gang, August Naab sends him with Mescal to his sheep camp in a isolated valley; even though Mescal knows that she is morally bound to marry August's son, Snap, the two fall in love.

It didn't matter that the warrant was years old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges. A Texas bounty hunter named Bill Pike believed he could still collect a $10,000 reward for killing Jensen-and he intended to do just that. But when Pike and his men came calling, Jensen was nowhere to be found. So they took the next best thing-Smoke's woman-left behind a ransom note, and headed up into the Rocky Mountains. Now, Smoke is going after...

Chet Byrnes has his hands full taking care of his family and running his ranch in Arizona Territory. But he takes his responsibilities as a deputy U.S. marshal seriously. Bandits have been crossing the border, cutting a bloody swath of mayhem and high-tailing it back to safety in Mexico. The chief U.S. marshal asks Chet to lead a secret task force to round them up dead or alive. But the bandits fight back -- putting a five-hundred-dollar bounty on...

Ignacio Ortiz, a Mexican orphan and a runaway searching for his past, lives through eras of intense change, including revolutionary upheavals, two world wars, and the beginning of the modern west during New Mexico's last territorial days. As these turbulent events serve as a backdrop to his life, Ignacio's own loyalties will be tested by the passions of his tempestuous employers, the MacAndrews clan.

In his latest Byrnes family novel, Dusty Richards tells of the blood that was spilled trying to make Arizona Territory a good place to live. Building a ranching empire is one thing, keeping it out of the hands of the no good opportunists crawling through the Arizona desert is a daily grind for Chet Byrnes. But nothing will stop Chet from bringing his ranch into a bold new era.

"In 1825, Richard Hamilton, a Harvard philosophy student, arrives in St. Louis on business. After being robbed and beaten, he joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat heading to the Upper Yellowstone River. On his journey, Richard begins the adventure of a lifetime. Meanwhile, Packrat, a Pawnee warrior, captures Heals Like a Willow, a young Shoshone medicine woman. However, slaves with spiritual connections can-and do-fight back. As the...

"It starts at a high-class auction for a pureblood Hereford bull. Smoke Jensen wins the bidding, and the hatred of Pogue Quentin' Santa Clara's leading citizen and a man living on bloodshed and lies. Then Smoke's friend Pearlie drifts to Santa Clara' and when he runs afoul of Quentin' all hell breaks loose. Now Smoke Jensen is heading to Santa Clara to face a man who already wants him dead, but Pogue Quentin never met anything like the fire of a mountain...