These are stories of bravery and of pluck amidst great odds. In many of the stories victory was won by the aid of powder, ball and steel, used manfully. In others it was won by sheer nerve and wit alone—for a good fighter fights with his heart and head as fully as with his hands.Americans have always been great fighters, when called upon to fight in self-defense. They never quit until they are killed or triumphant; and although many may be killed, those they leave press forward agai...

In the United States of North America there have been several great battle-fields, each much larger than the battle-field of France. The first was that of the Ohio River country—the Valley of the Beautiful River which drains Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. Another, yet larger, was that of the plains and mountains West, extending from Mexico to California, and from the Mississippi to the Rockies.In the Ohio Valley the Shawnees, the Miamis, teh War De...

Strike like an eagle—stand like a man . . . A tale of guts and guns in the old West from the USA Today bestselling author.Falcon MacCallister never thought he'd wear army brass. But Colorado is about to join the Union—and the would-be state has just made him Lt. Colonel in its Home Guard. Then, before his military career can take off, Falcon loses one of his men and two deadly new Gatling guns to a murderous ambush. Falcon is going to get those Gatling gun...

“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life.After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Li...

Honor. Spirit. Survival. A story of the Blackfeet Nation.“A thriller [which has] an enthusiasm, even a freshness and a sparkle, decidedly rare in this type of romance.” —New York TimesGreed crossed the mountains. Honor stood its ground.1806. A young republic just three decades old—the United States of America—is preparing to press westward across the Mississippi, into a land as wild as it i...

In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set forth to explore and map the West, and forge a trade route to the Pacific coast. Though their adventures and contributions to American history are well known, a vital member of their team was nearly forgotten by time. Amid the soldiers, cartographers, and boatmen, one particular explorer in The Corps of Discovery stands out: Seaman, Captain Lewis's giant black Newfoundland dog.Seaman is more than a just a companion. He is a skilled hu...

In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters. Mari Sandoz’s vast canvas is charged with color and excitement—accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, and famous frontier characters such as Wild Bill Hickok, Lonesome Charlie Reyn...

Four Years In the Rockies tells the story of Isaac P. Rose, who went from greenhorn to legendary trapper at the height of the fur-trade in the 1830s. His narrative is a who’s who of early American West figures like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and Nathaniel Wyeth, and features many memorable sequences such as the trader’s ‘rendezvous,’ battles with Native Americans and countless details not in mainstream history books – like how Kit Carson found his wife.Four Years In the R...

Winner of the 2018 Spur Award for Historical NovelA sweeping historical novel of the American West that follows the dramatic life of Daytime Smoke, Nez Perce son of explorer William Clark.The Coming is an epic novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke--the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on ...

CONTENTS  I    PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1644)      How He Scouted Against the Iroquois II    PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1645-1647)      How He Brought Peace to the Forests III    OPECHANCANOUGH, SACHEM OF THE PAMUNKEYS (1607-1644)      Who Fought at the Age of One Hundred IV    KING PHILIP TH...

Johnny D. Boggs turns the battlefield itself into a character in this historical retelling of Custer’s Last Stand, when George Custer led most of his command to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in southern Montana in 1876.More than forty first-person narratives are used—Indian and white, military and civilian, men and women—to paint a panorama of the battle itself.Boggs brings the events and personalities of the Battle of the Little Bighorn to life in a seri...

Lone Bull's Mistake: A Lodge Pole Chief Story, is the account of Black Otter, a Pikuni (or ‘Blackfoot’) Indian cast out from his tribe for breaking the hunting rules and forced to wander the wilderness in search of redemption.