Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier--the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.From castle to slave galley, from sword-racked battlefields to a princess's secret chamber, and ultimately, to the impregnable fortress of the Valley of Assassins, The Walking Drum is a powerful adventure in an ancient world that you will find every bit as riveting as Louis L'Amour's stories of the American West.

    In his heart is vengeance. In his hand is a Navy Colt. By his side is the old mountain man named Preacher, who'll teach young Smoke Jensen everything he needs to know about fighting like the devil, and--when the time comes--dying like a man. Although his enemies have destroyed everything he's ever loved, they made one mistake.

    It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during which fourteen-year-old Jick comes of age. Through his eyes we see those nearest and dearest to him at a turning point—“where all four of our lives made their bend”—and discover along with him his own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one’s kin and one’s self.

    Frank Claymore is cantankerous, stubborn, and intolerant--just the qualities that make him a success as an open-range cattle rancher on the West Texas frontier. Stand Proud follows Claymore form the time of the Civil War to the dawn of the twentieth century--through marriage, births, deaths, and a creeping change in the society that once hailed him as a hero, and which later has him condemned as a despoiler and tried for murder. Based in part of legendary rancher Charles Goodnight, Claymore is only one example of the many men who dreamed of cattle, and through their dedication to that dream came to change the face of Western history.

    A gifted healer, she will soon learn that in the American West a medicine woman is scorned by the all-male medical profession.Katie…every bit as strong and defiant as her older sister and determined never to put her fate in the hands of any man, but instead to build a Wyoming sheep ranching empire in Wyoming’s magnificent Wind River Country.Amos…a powerful polygamist whose hunger for power is eclipsed only by his lust for Rebecca. He vows to make her his fifth and most prized wife.Bryce…handsome, dangerous and a man who has lost his first love to a powerful and ruthless polygamist and vows deadly revenge...until he meets Rebecca.Captain Devlin Woodson II…a brilliant, dashing but tortured Army doctor whose battlefield decision cost sixty-three lives in the Civil War…and whose only purpose for living is to save that many soldiers at the lonely frontier outpost called Fort Bridger.Washaki...greatest of the Shoshone chiefs, a man too wise to let his people die needlessly…he will win them the great Wind River Reservation…and keep it forever for his people.Intertwined with the epic building of the Transcontinental Railroad the true story of the courageous Wyoming women who fought for woman’s suffrage and first won the right to vote, SISTERS of the WYOMING MOUNTAINS: Book I and its exciting sequel, SISTERS of the WYOMING PLAINS: Book II are never to be forgotten sagas written by multiple and national award-winning author, Gary McCarthy.

    "You gotta want to be a cowboy." Mack Hughes wanted to be a cowboy, all right, and he was just twelve years old when he went to work for the famous Hashknife spread in northern Arizona. Growing up on the range, Mack lived a life about which modern boys can only wonder. He spins yarns of bad horses and the men who rode them, tells of wild dogs that ravaged young calves, and recalls lonely winter weeks spent at a remote camp-where his home was a shack so flimsy that snow blew through the cracks and covered his bed. Stella Hughes, author of the best-selling Chuck Wagon Cookin' and a cowhand in her own right, has compiled from her husband's reminiscences an authentic look both at Arizona history and at cowboying as it really was. Illustrated by Joe Beeler, founding member of the Cowboy Artists of America.

    The series has received high praise from national book reviewers such as Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.With an awesome list of stirring Western novels, F. M. Parker has won acclaim as a master story teller. In Judge And Executioner, he has created a story that thrills the imagination and charges the emotions. .The time is 1843. Young Luke Coldiron rides into the trackless Rocky Mountains. There he builds a cabin and scouts for beaver for the winter trapping. Far away on the great prairie, his partner Tarpenning steals the beautiful Arapaho Indian maiden Morning Mist from her tribe and carries her into the mountains to give love to the two men in the long winter nights. Falling under the spell of Morning Mist, Tarpenning refuses to share her with Luke. This often drives Luke away from the cabin on long, solitary hunts. In the spring, in a battle with fur thieves, Tarpenning is killed. Luke and Morning Mist survive. On the way out of the mountains in the spring, Morning Mist’s horse is spooked by a mountain lion and she is thrown and killed. Luke is now alone with a tiny bundle of girl child, the child of Tarpenning and Morning Mist. Unable to care for the new born, he searches out a family with a new born child and surrenders the child to the woman and man to feed and raise. During the next twenty years Coldiron builds a great horse ranch in the high valley in the mountains where he had trapped with Tarpenning and Morning Mist. And where he had buried them. His famous horses bring thieves. Luke becomes judge and executioner and kills the thieves as they come into his valley. Then a powerful Mexican bandit rides north with his fierce band of pistoleros and steals his magnificent heard of horses and drives them into Mexico. And the child of Tarpenning and Morning Mist, now a woman, appears in the mountains to slay Luke for killing her mother. From Coldiron Luke awoke from a deep sleep by the sounds of Tarpenning’s and Morning Mist’s lovemaking. He could not but listen to their excited, hurried breathing and creak of their bed a little more than a body length away. He felt himself hardening and, with an oath, sprang from his bed, jerked on moccasins and coat and plunged through the cabin door into the winter night. He ran through the sub-zero cold, with the rays of a full moon bathing the night in a weak silver light and the snow crackling and crunching beneath his hurried footsteps. For a long distance he raced through the trees and over the snow covered meadows, cooling his hot, lusting blood with strenuous action. Finally with his throat and lungs burning from breathing the frigid air, he halted. He stood in the stark, silent valley and let the last of his fiery passion for Morning Mist drain away. Around him the dim shapes of the nearer objects, framed by the snow, could be seen. With distance, the snow and trees faded into an amorphous gray whiteness. Against the sky to the north, the tall mountain peaks blocked out a hand’s width of twinkling stars. His frost nipped ears began to ache for he had left without his cap. H e cupped the aching ears into his hands, turned and started the return journey to the cabin.