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"Former Texas Ranger Clay Orde was looking for a man. There was only one thing on his mind -- revenge. He'd been following a cold trail from Oregon to Nevada, but his experience as a ranger and what he had learned about Silver Jack Devaney assured him that he was going in the right direction. Fate intervenes when he thwarts a freight train robbery and becomes acquainted with Milly Ewell. Milly Ewell runs a mule freighting business she inherited when...

"Rogue Madden was a laughing man. He and his friends never seemed to take anything too seriously and could find laughter in most situations. After a wild poker party at his ranch house in Mexico, Rogue receives a telegram that a party of nine guests would be arriving that day and bringing the loveliest surprise. When the travelers arrive, there are plenty of surprises. First, they announce they have been robbed by bandits only a few miles from the...

"Kirby had carried a seven-year grudge with him wherever he went. He'd followed Joe Lowry from Wyoming through Montana, New Mexico, Missouri and the Dakotas. But now that he'd found his man, Mason Kirby was stuck. Because there was real trouble in the territory. Further north, the Sioux and Cheyenne were joining forces as they had never done before. At Fort Fetterman the Army sat, tense with anticipation, waiting for a call for help. Now, of all times,...

"On the night of September 2, 1878, two men died. One was Colonel James McAllister, the commander of Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska. The other was Iron Mountain, chief of the Cheyenne living in exile on the Darlington Reservation near Fort Reno in Oklahoma Territory. As Dull Knife becomes the new chief of the Cheyenne, he considers the condition of his people. Once strong, they are now ravaged by hunger and disease. With only a few muzzle-loading...

"Murphy is living a quiet life of semi-retirement with his wife, Kai, and their newly adopted baby in their home outside Fort Smith, Arkansas. Kai, part Navajo, teaches on the reservation in the Indian Nation in the Ozarks. Murphy is called back into service when William Burke, special advisor to President Arthur, shows up in Fort Smith with an assignment. New York Governor Grover Cleveland is running for president and Arthur wants Murphy to head...

"Polly Alden, a young California-bound Arkansas emigrant, falls in love with Tom Langford, a Mormon boy she meets in the settlements of Utah Territory. Caught between the fear and hatred of the persecuted Saints for the emigrants, and the hostility of the emigrants toward Mormons who will not replenish their dwindling supplies, the young lovers defy mistrust and opposition as they aspire to a life together. Animosity between the emigrants and the...

"In the early 1880s, the Texas Rangers were beginning to bring law and order to that wild country. When a particularly pesky gang of bad Indians had to be cleaned up, Jess Roundtree was the man who undertook the job. He set out to get them and a clever stratagem soon had their leader, Mysterious Dave, in jail. That, however, was only the beginning of his troubles. It soon became apparent that he was not after a band of Indians, but a group of whites...

"Hellgate. The name strikes fear throughout Arizona Territory. Mason McCabe's nightmarish village huddles in an extinct volcano's crater. His business is stolen goods and stolen women. All criminals welcome. An outlaw, Caleb Connor, is protecting the captive Rose LaBelle, but her life is endangered when McCabe takes a personal interest in her. Rose fights the horrors of Hellgate while her Aunt Mary Alice, at her home in Prescott, the territorial capital,...

"Former con man Jesse Baker is two days out of prison with no prospects and trying to fulfill a promise made to his dying cellmate. He's vowed not to return to the life that landed him in prison, but when he crashes into an easy mark on the Boston train platform, he grabs the opportunity to escape the city that took everything from him. Erin O'Grady has something to prove. There's more to her than the spoiled socialite her father sees and she'll...

"The McBride brothers are in for a matrimonial surprise when an enterprising woman answers their little sister's mail-order bride advertisement in this laugh-out-loud historical romance. As the oldest of the McBride siblings, Morgan had to be protector and shepherd since Ma died and Pa ran off. It hasn't always been easy, especially when his heart longs to roam on the trail. But now that his brother Kit is married and settled, the time is right for...