Gary McCarthy

Darby Buckingham was an unlikely candidate for frontier life....

John Augustus Sutter came to the wide and wild California country to build an empire....

Look sharp, hit hard - that's the Derby Man's style....

In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between outlaw and citizen was thinly drawn, two women struggled, fought, and won....

Two Colorado cowboys searching for strayed cattle during a harsh snow storm discover the remains of an ancient city built into the side of a huge cliff....

Burly, broad-shouldered Isaac Beard is the living embodiment of the mountain code. To survive, he will have to fight his way to a safe haven near Spirit Lake....

For young Quinn Wallace, reaching the land called Yellowstone was a quest he would rather die for than abandon....

Wild mustangs, ghosts on the ranch, gun-toting outlaws and trailblazing cowboys roam the pages...

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger....

Haunted by the blood and bitterness of the Civil War, Houston Ballou escaped from Tennessee on the proud stallion High Fire....

In Our American West, Volume 1, discover humor, tragedy, and courage in every one of these delightful stories....

He is the most cruelly dangerous opponent the Derby Man has ever challenged: Wesley Bryant, now the crime lord of San Francisco....

Here is the bold adventure story of William Dunn, an educated man yet an accomplished mountain man. His life becomes forever entwined with the wild, unforgettable Grand Canyon....

Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870s....

The thundering engines of the Central Pacific are stalled in the quest to conquer the mighty Sierras....

Darby Buckingham, the West's hardest hitting, toughest fighting, fastest thinking hero, now charges into what threatens to be his most unbeatable challenge....

When Darby Buckham's fianceé Dolly Beavers fails to show for their announced wedding, he strikes out for Reno, convinced she must be a victim of foul play....

Darby Buckingham, the portly New York writer, had an appetite for local color to add punch to his newest dime novel....

Irish immigrant Michael Callahan gets the gold fever and stakes a claim in California. Just when persistence and ingenuity finally payoff, he is jumped by thieves intent upon taking his gold and his life....

The final book chapter of the Derby Man series....