There has never been a Decade in the US history so defined by so many different events as the 1960's.We experienced the assassination of President John F Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Medger Evers and Malcom X.The world stood in fear as the Cuban Missile Crisis loomed. The Viet Nam war was going on, and still, we all cheered as we landed a man on the Moon. Great jumps in electronics and communications. The medical world with the first heart transplant an...

It had been fifty years since I'd left New Hampshire back in June of 1968 to do the one thing many long haired hippies had only talked about doing…hitch-hiking to California by way of the MOTHER ROAD Route 66, and that journey I wrote about in my novel BETWEEN THE WHITE LINE AND THE FENCE POST.So when two high school friends made contact and invited me on a trip they were planning which was to drive Route 66 to California to experience what they hadn't back in 1968, I jumped up and...

There is a new spin on stage robbing in the Midwest, women, that's right, women. When a friend found herself in financial trouble, her best friends decided they needed to help. Dressed as common working girls, sporting wigs and lots of makeup so no one would recognize them, these well-known women of the community pulled off their first stage robbery. Netting thousands of dollars, they saved their friend from financial ruin. Dubbed the BUXOM BANDITS they would go on robbing stage coaches to...

So far in the game of life, Deuce Morgan has been a lucky man. Accused of killing fifteen, if not more men, he has escaped the Hangman's noose every time. Deuce, a quick tempered card shark, was known throughout the gambling circuit as a shoot now ask questions later gambler. All one had to do was challenge the legitimacy of his hand, if lucky you would have a chance to recall that challenge, if not so lucky, you would weigh an extra ounce, this being the weight of one of Deuce's lead bull...

When his seventeenth birthday came around, young Dave Moreau decided he wanted to strike out on his own. His dream was to become a notorious and feared bounty hunter. He also had dreams of going to his native homeland in search of the man who had left his mother to raise Dave and his sister alone. Eventually, both dreams would be realized.Being a bounty hunter was second nature to Dave and he fell easily into it. When he learned that the outlaws wearing the highest prices on their w...

William O'Toole, an ex-gunfighter and now ex-worker for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was fed up with the way the railroad workers were being underpaid and mistreated by the company. Something had to be done, and he was the man to see that it got done. O'Toole began, in early July of 1877, to rally the workers into a strike, to force the heads of the B & O Railroad to give them fair pay for the work they'd been doing for years.Benjamin Pike, hired by the B & O Railroad to head off ...

Growing up, Clarisse Ferris never expected the focus of her life would be vengeance. A child of a close family in the small town of Twin Arrows, Arizona, she knows that her life may be hard, but it turns out harder than she ever imagined. She and her sister, Savannah, have honorable, hardworking parents. Their mother owns a saloon known as the High Heel Lady, and their father is the town sheriff. But one tragic day in the late 1800s, when the girls are away, a gang of outlaws known as the ...

"Ten seconds," she whispered, cupping her ears with her hands, and watching the other two do the same. Excitement ran through her entire body. Fifteen banks later, and she still felt those same feelings she always did as the last few seconds ticked by before the mighty explosion would blow the bank vaults door open to expose thousands of dollars in bills, and coin for their taking.All three tucked themselves down completely behind the heavy, oak desk."Three, two, one," she wh...

It is said that ten Indians with a good leader is a force to be dealt with, so when word got out that a small band of mixed breed Indians, led by a young warrior who was given the name of Many Lives, had attacked the Cooper homestead and savagely slaughtered its occupants, US Marshal Harry Finch was assigned the job to track him and his band of redskins down and bring them to justice.Remembering an earlier associate who he had teamed up with was from Nebraska, Harry contacted the no...

Cinnamon Hollow was an up and coming city in the west. A city that was on the verge of the East West Central Railroad laying tracks through downtown.Many saloons, gambling establishments, and even three brothels were businesses located in Cinnamon Hollow. And now someone was murdering the Painted Ladies who worked those brothels.Young Sheriff Tom Evers made the decision to contact the US Marshal Department for some added help in finding this killer before he could strike agai...

The old ways of the gentleman's handshake would make way for barbed wire and gunpowder in a land battle that would only end when the last strand of barbed wire was cut and the last gunshot fired, even if it took a hundred years.

With a few bounty hunting tips in their arsenal, RJ Murdock and his buddy Calvin McCoy find themselves traveling on Charlie Utter's wagon train where they meet up with their war buddy, "Mad Man Micah" who, during the Civil War, was one of Quantrill's Raiders. They form a partnership until RJ fully realizes that bounty hunting is a tough way to make a living-especially when one bounty hunter is pursued by another.