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After years of setbacks Jim Baker finally decided to give up trying to raise crops on the parched land in Kansas and decides to move his family west to fulfill his dream of owning his own ranch. However, everything Baker knows about ranching he has learned by reading dime novels and talking with folks who knew even less than he. After an arduous journey West, he finds himself near the small eastern Arizona town of Hopeful, along the Gila River. He quickly discovers raising cattle is no picnic and he quickly gets himself in over his head. Fate brings a Texas rancher into his life which ...

When Matt Gates rode into the small town of Dry Creek, nestled in the shadow of the great Sangre de Cristo Mountains, he had no idea he was riding into the middle of a bitter feud between the area ranchers and a handful of homesteaders who had claimed possession of prime acreage the ranchers thought they were entitled to. One rancher in particular, Captain Vernon Piersol, was strongly motivated to drive the group of farmers out of the Wet Mountain Valley. Matt, a cattleman himself, found himself in the awkward position of siding with the farmers, who were clearly being bullied by the large ...

In this collection of short stories, you will find a little bit of everything. Some are nonfiction, based on events that actually happened; some are fiction; and one of the stories is actually sort of a combination of fiction and nonfiction. The stories cover a wide genre range. There are a couple of stories set in Biblical times; adventures I had in my youth (it’s a wonder I’m still alive); a gripping story of how my father-in-law was rescued from the jaws of death; one children’s story I wrote for my grandkids; and a fictional story about two strangers, who are experiencing ...

Tyrel Henson is ecstatic when he learns his Uncle Jack wants to turn ownership of his thousand-acre ranch over to him. It was everything he had ever dreamed of. However, when he arrived at the site in the San Luis Valley, in southern Colorado, the ranch was gone! In fact, there was no evidence a ranch even existed; and his uncle was not to be found. Ty is determined to unravel the mystery but is opposed on every side. A neighboring ranch is only hostile and uncooperative. Other neighbors, a family of German farmers is friendly enough, but is withholding a secret they cannot share out of ...

Jed (Slim) McAllister moved to the western slope of Colorado, trying to put behind him a past, in which he killed a man and badly wounded another. He bought a cattle ranch and developed it into a large, prosperous spread. The Outlaws of Echo City is a novel that chronicles the events of life on the ranch and in and around the small town of Echo City and the surrounding White River Valley. Slim's problems begin when an old man, his three sons and one daughter buy a neighboring ranch. Slim learns that the old man, Hank Murdock, was the man he had wounded in Texas years earlier. Hank and his ...

As three outlaws murder Tom Turley's parents he can only hide under the wagon and watch, holding his little sister Jenny tightly. Little did he know just how ruthless the three killers were. In his quest for vengeance he meets a man with a mysterious past and falls in love with a beautiful young woman. As Tom searches for the killers, his sister strikes out on her own to find him; only to fall into the hands of renegade Indians. Unknown to either Tom or Jenny, they are half owners of the richest gold mine in Colorado, but only if they claim possession of the shares by the deadline. Will Tom...

Norman DeWeese, a man who came to be known as Dr. X, is the smartest man who ever lived . . . hands down. He has decided to devote his attention and studies to the human brain; more specifically how the brain processes and retains memories. In his research he discovers a way to retrieve a specific memory in a person’s brain; freeze it, as it were; and enable the individual to actually replace the memory with a new one. In essence, he is giving a person a second chance, the opportunity to undo a seemingly wrong decision and replace it with a new one. He decides to choose three candidates ...

Fifteen-year-old Billy Higgins is left with no family after witnessing the murder of his Pappy at the hand of the McClures, who had been feuding with the Higgins family for many years. He knows they will be coming for him next, and he is forced to flee his home, leaving behind a bountiful harvest and even worse, his childhood sweetheart Betty Lou Sawyer. With no place to go Billy decides to chase after his dream of going West and being a cowboy. The Making of a Cowboy documents his journey to fulfill that dream. Along the way he is helped by a number of generous folks, some of them famous ...

You will enjoy meeting these colorful characters from the Old West, as you read these eight stories: In “A Rancher’s Dream” Matt McPhearson must find a way to go on after his young wife and newborn child are killed in a tragic house fire. Deciding to go West, he eventually becomes foreman of a large ranch where he meets an old hand who believes he knows where a cache of lost gold was stashed by a group of miners, before they were massacred by Indians. They decide to strike out after the gold themselves, but must be prepared to contend with those very same Indians as well as some ...

In the light-hearted story “City Slickers” an old prospector lures three gas station robbers into the desert and teaches them valuable lessons about survival in the wilderness. Set in the 1960’s in Cave Creek, Arizona. “Three Toes” is a spell-binding story of a grizzley bear that terrorizes ranches along the front range of the Grand Teton Mountains in Wyoming. The cunning and highly intelligent bear eludes his pursuers over and over again as they seek to bring the bear’s reign of terror to an end. In “Justice for Black Hawk” Ranger Clint McDermot seeks to solve the mystery ...

At the young age of nineteen Billy Hayes was forced to kill a man who challenged him to a dual. Seeking to avoid revenge from the man’s three brothers, Billy joins the Confederate Army where he teaches himself to shoot and draw with accuracy and speed. After he returns to Texas a series of unfortunate events gain him a reputation as a gunslinger. Billy wanders from town to town trying to stay one step ahead of his unwanted reputation. He assumes a new identity and eventually ends up in Durango, Colorado, helping a beautiful woman stand up against a bully who is trying to take away the ...

Twelve years after moving West to New Mexico Jeb Hutchinson learns his parents have been lost at sea. When he returns to Philadelphia to settle the estate, he learns his parents were wealthy, and he has become sole heir of a small fortune. He was warned, however, that there would be unscrupulous people who would like to get their hands on his newly acquired wealth, including his long-lost brother who had estranged himself from the family years earlier. On his way back to New Mexico he meets a beautiful young woman of Spanish heritage and is delighted to learn she lives, a mere hundred miles...

The note had been short and to the point. The Cebolla Creek Ranch was in trouble. The ranch had been taken over and Bob Conners and his beautiful daughter Becky are being held captive by Duke Maddow, the reputed killer from the Neuces, and his twenty hard-case bad men. It never occurred to Matthew Tallon not to go to the aid of his good friends, despite the odds. To make matters worse, after Matt opens the ball and kills one of Maddow’s men, the outlaw does not hesitate in hiring Ren Glade, the nastiest paid killer in all of Texas. Maybe Matt bit off more than he can chew this time!

Ethan Morgan was only seventeen years old when he stood at his Pa’s grave and swore to bring every one of his father’s six killers to justice, after they savagely robbed and murdered him on his return trip from a cattle drive. His quest would take him into four states, as far south as Santa Fe and north to Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming. Along the way he would meet some unlikely persons who would help him and a few who sought to stop him. Eventually he found himself in an outlaw hideout where he assumed the identity of an outlaw himself. To complicate matters even more, he found the love of ...