When Kiowa war chief, Santana, boasted that he had led a war party against a wagon train of freighters, he set the stage for his arrest. The war party had robbed, tortured and mutilated members of the wagon train, and now the Kiowa chiefs were to be tried in a Texas court. The case seemed open and shut, but attorney Joe Woolfolk made it clear that the U.S. would have to prove its charge without using Santanas boastful self-incrimination.

After a cattle train bound for Texas is ambushed by blood-thirsty rustlers, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen, on a mission of vengeance, vows to bring swift--and deadly--justice to the men responsible.

A collection of short stories never before published in book form captures the lives and adventures of the men and women who met the dangers, challenges, and hardships of the American West

Zane Grey first presented this brilliant story of the West in a much shorter form as a magazine serial in 1914. Readers were thrilled and greeted it as another masterpiece from one of the West's greatest storytellers. The manuscript would suffer at the hands of Grey's book publishers, however. They took the second half of the story, deleted characters, changed the hero's name, and pasted it with the first half of another Grey manuscript to produce...

Equal parts Clint Eastwood and Mae West, Margaret "Peggy" Thomas is a hard-drinking, wizened, witty old woman who has to hop a train out to the end of the line to attend the trial for one of the murderers of her dead sheriff husband, James. And as she does many things in her life, Peggy sets off alone, with just her horse and her dog to keep her company. That doesn't last. Margaret is soon joined by Gina, a free-spirited wanderer, and then by an enterprising...

Grasshoppers in Summer examines the conflict between Native American plains tribes and the U.S. westward expansion from 1866 to 1876.

Western Jane Candia Coleman is a natural storyteller whose characters come from the lands between the southwestern valleys of Arizona and the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. The night Billy the Kid died is hauntingly depicted in Corrido for Billy. Lady Flo is a memoir, based on historical fact, of the black wife of an Irish nobleman. Moving On depicts a young girl abandoned by her family who finds her way with an itinerant Jewish peddler. And Are You...

Joanna O'Keefe sells off the family holdings in Texas to go find her husband in New Mexico Territory. He went with John McLeod dreaming of a cattle empire with millions of acres for the taking.

Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.