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The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River.

In Tennessee, 17-year-old Breckinridge Wallace knew the laws of nature. When his life was in danger, he showed a fearless instinct to fight back. Killing a thug who was sent to kill him got Breckinridge exiled from his Smoky Mountain home. Brutally wounding an Indian attacker earned him an enemy for life....

Lovely but tough as nails, Lael Click is the daughter of a celebrated frontiersman. Haunted by her father's former captivity with the Shawnee Indians, as well as the secret sins of her family's past, Lael comes of age in the fragile Kentucky settlement her father founded.

After putting together a large herd of Texas longhorn cattle, Hannibal and Stumpy headed the herd for California. Comancheros kidnapped Hannibal’s wife, Morning Star, to sell in Mexico. Hannibal set out alone to find and return her. Once they had secured Morning Star and other girls' release, Stumpy and Hannibal sold the cattle as planned and headed back to Kansas Territory. Now it was time to build a ranching operation.

Miss Sayler Rainier is overjoyed to return to the small town of Ford’s Promise on the western frontier, except compared to Cousin Coralee, she feels like a fish out of water after being gone for so long. Nevertheless, she is determined to be an exemplary teacher for the growing town, believing the good Lord called her to establish a life in the West as a mission. That suits her just fine, since she has no intention of ever marrying. But she never dreamed her arrival would be so complicated. On top of that, one new student is quite the challenge. And that would be Luke MacLaine’s ...

Eight months after the showdown with the domestic terrorist group that nearly cost him his life, Danny Coogan, a Montana Fish and Game Officer, faces a new threat to his community—and his career. It starts with a dead steer. Which happens to be near the body of a dead rancher. Both of which are on the Dead Horse Indian Reservation. Soon, Danny, the Tribal Police, the local Sheriff’s Department, and a US Marshal are pressed into action. Danny’s connections to the Rez draw him into the murder case and plant him firmly in the crosshairs of the killers. Another victim is discovered, ...

A missing father. A deadly storm. And a stranger who may be more dangerous than the wilderness. Kentucky Territory, 1785 Roisin Duncan has spent her life guarding secrets—her father's failing mind, her own quiet eccentricities, and the fear that one misstep could see them both locked away like...

The story is told by Waryata the adopted daughter of Gabe and Ruthie Harrison. She is the daughter of Gabe's Apache friend, Wadiskay. Having the premonition of his death, he asked Gabe to take Waryata and raise her as his own. It's a big change to go to a ranch after living in an Apache village. She is soon loved by the family including Gabe's daughter Libby. In the home also lives Ben, Gabe's life-long partner, and Hank, Ruthie's brother and Janie, a young widow, who Gabe had rescued a short time before. Having a family member train in the skills of an Apache proved to be very valuable to ...

Ride with Gabe and Ben in this action packed adventure. The second book of the series. Gabe is called upon by representatives of the army and the government to locate and destroy groups of Comancheros that are terrorizing white sellters and travelers in the Southwest. Gabe, with the help of his best friend, Ben Odell, enlists aid from an unlikely source - Wadiskay, a friend from their growing-up years when they were held captive by his tribe of Apache Indians. Gabe, Ben, Wadiskay and his carefully chosen braves, set out on their mission. Those who called Gabe for help would have publicly ...

Fifty Years on the Trail is the true story of John Young Nelson (1826-1903), an early frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, and saloon owner. Nelson ran away from home as a young teenager to adventure in the west. He worked on farms, served as a cabin boy on a Mississippi steamer, and became an apprentice with a group of traders traveling west from Missouri. After meeting a band of Sioux, he got himself adopted into the tribe, learned how to live off the land and became a Sioux warrior.

Meredith Mason Brown traces Daniel Boone's life from his Pennsylvania childhood to his experiences in the militia and his rise as an unexcelled woodsman, explorer, and backcountry leader. In the process, we meet the authentic Boone: he didn't wear coonskin caps; he read and wrote better than many frontiersmen; he was not the first to settle Kentucky; he took no pleasure in killing Indians. At once a loner and a leader, a Quaker who became a skilled frontier fighter, Boone is a study in contradictions.

While the planet Naugh is under siege, more invasions start popping up across Frontier worlds. Alien fleets led by phantom Imperial warships that are not supposed to exist. Caught between time, a lack of supplies, badly trained troops, and numerous foes, Grand Admiral Aatroxiss is pressed to his limits to free Naugh and bring back some semblance of order to the Frontier.

The Everett, Tutt, and King War is one of wildest and deadliest family feuds in American history. The feud is comparable to the Hatfields and McCoys, and most believe it to be much deadlier. The feud occurred in Yellville, Arkansas, throughout the 1840s, where the Governor declared Martial Law for six weeks, due to civil unrest. Newspapers covered the feud all over America and throughout England during its time. The locations in which it occurred, and the people involved, had coincidental connections to famous explorers, Native American chiefs, presidents, war heroes, wild west legends, ...

In Tennessee, 17-year-old Breckinridge Wallace knew the laws of nature. When his life was in danger, he showed a fearless instinct to fight back. Killing a thug who was sent to kill him got Breckinridge exiled from his Smoky Mountain home. Brutally wounding an Indian attacker earned him an enemy for life...Now, from the bustling streets of St. Louis to the vast stillness of the Missouri headwaters, Breckinridge is discovering a new world of splendor, violence, promise and betrayal. Most off all, he is clawing his way to manhood behind the law of the gun. 

Breck Wallace was turning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee, he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines, he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two such men in his past - and they both send cold-blooded killers for hire after him.

This third book of the series finds Gabe and Ben enjoying a peaceful life until once again they are called to come to the aid of people in need of help. Someone is needed to cross the river into Mexico. The law and the army can't. but Gabe can and does. He and a young ranch hand, Todd Rankin, ride into Mexico -- two against an unknown number of bandits, the worst of the worst in their savage act, showing no mercy to men, women or children. These bandits know the territory, the people, and feel confident that they can withstand any who come to interfere with their lifestyle. They don't know ...

Jackson Slade, Confederate Soldier, Explorer, Scout, and Gunfighter who, through a twist of fate, will live history as it is made in the frontier of the West and beyond...for a very long time....

Jedidiah Frank Stewart left his home in Missouri at age fifteen and headed west to become a mountain man. During his travels to Colorado, he saved a wounded Pawnee Indian and spent a winter living with the man's tribe. He worked as a cattle drover, and then as an Indian scout for the Frontier Regiment in Texas before heading to the Rockies. After making it to the Rocky Mountains, he met an old mountain man who showed him how to survive in the wilderness. Jake met a white girl who was living with the Crow Indians in the Rockies.

This first of a series finds Gabe's family killed and him taken to a Mescalero Apache camp. There he has to endure their treat until be becomes one of them. A young white boy, Ben, is captured later and they become best friends. Follow their lives as they have to deal with the white man's way of life after escaping from the Apache. Their lives are shaped by the memories of their families and their training as Apache warriors. Be sure to watch for other books in the Gabe Harrison Frontiersman series. In easy to read print. If you like the story, please leave a review. Check out the other ...

In the next book in the Treegate series on American History, the author takes readers to the Battle of Tippecanoe... While their uncle is in England trying to avert war, 18-year-old Manly Treegate and his 12-year-old brother, Peter, go to the Ohio frontier to prepare for war with the British-backed multi-tribal confederation led by a Native American Shawnee warrior named Tecumseh in what would become known as the Battle of Tippecanoe. Manly Treegate Frontiersman is the sixth in an eight-book series, which makes a great companion to study American History. THE TREEGATE BOOK SERIES: Book 1: ...