Far from his home in Kemmerer, Wyoming, Kit Andrews is in unfamiliar territory in Montana. Alone, on vacation, he is forced to work as a tracker for a Mexican cartel to help them track and find a rogue cartel member who got caught by police, offered to testify against the cartel, and then escaped from the police. The rogue cartel man has entered Glacier National Park, headed for the Canadian border. Alone in some f the wildest territory in the United States with four Mexican cartel men, Ki...

On a cold fall morning in Kemmerer, Wyoming, Carson “Kit” Andrews is walking to his office after a breakfast with two of his oldest friends. A thirteen-year-old boy confronts Carson “Kit” Andrews in front of his office. The young boy asks Kit to find his father, who he has never met and who has no idea he has a son. The boy offers to pay Kit for his services by producing a sock from his jeans pocket and dumping a small pile on coins on the desk. Kit removes four quarters and tells the boy ...

This story features Gary “Swifty” Olson. Swifty has been Kit Andrews partner in their company for several years. After receiving a phone call from his sister notifying him of his father’s death, Swifty takes time off to see his mother and attend the funeral. When he gets to the family ranch in Cody, Wyoming, he visits the scene of the auto accident his father died in. What he finds doesn’t make sense, so he begins to snoop around and ask questions. The answers are elusive, and he finds clu...

A chance discovery of a dusty leather-bound notebook hidden in the wall of an old Illinois farm house being demolished sets off a treasure hunt in South Carolina. Kit Andrews and Swifty Olsen set out for South Carolina in a search for Confederate gold buried in February of 1865 using a notebook and map made by Kit's great-great grandfather who served with the 102nd Illinois Infantry regiment in the Civil War under General Sherman. Their serach accidentally uncovers a smuggling operation an...

This book is a sequel to my previous novel, “The Test.”A year after the end to the livestock rustling in western Wyoming, a different problem faces the stockmen. Someone is deliberately killing entire herds of livestock indiscriminately and doing it with high powered rifles. The killers are leaving little or no trace of their identity. The crime makes no sense. Rifle ammunition is not cheap, and the bodies of the dead livestock have been left on the winter desert floor for scavenge...

When Tang Kellys hermit-like grandfather goes missing, she turns to Kit Andrews and Swifty Olson of Rocky Mountain Searchers to find him. Tang has not seen her grandfather in ten years, and her only connection has been a yearly birthday card sent from a post office in Woods Landing, Wyoming. Kit and Swifty begin the search for Tangs grandfather and eventually find his remote, off-the-grid cabin high in the foothills of Wyoming. The grandfather is nowhere to be found, but they discover that...

During the siege of Atlanta in the American Civil War, General Sherman ordered a series of Union cavalry raids behind Confederate lines to destroy railroad facilities and cut off the source of supplies to Atlanta to force the surrender of the city. One of those raids was led by General Stoneman, who not only planned to lead five thousand Union cavalrymen to destroy a railroad works but also planned to then continue south to Macon, Georgia. Once there, he intended to capture the city along ...

In the summer of 1941, the area around Kemmerer, Wyoming, is still in the grip of the Great Depression. World War II rages overseas in Europe and Asia but is not yet a reality in the United States. This is the story of eight young men, newly graduated from Kemmerer High School, as they make their journey from boyhood to manhood in a summer filled with new challenges, new opportunities, and new dangers. Some will succeed. Some will fail. This is their story.

A young man goes missing while searching for treasure in Skeleton Canyon in Cochise County, Arizona. Kit and Swifty are called in by a relative after local law enforcement fails to come up with any clue to the missing mans whereabouts or what happened to him. Skeleton Canyon is located just north of the Mexican border. The east end of the canyon is in New Mexico and the west end is in Arizona. For hundreds of years the canyon was a thoroughfare for Mexicans and the Apache. It has been the ...

A collection of short stories collected during my years of working and living in Illinois, Wyoming, and Colorado.

A divorced financially successful father who was has been denied access to his three sons for the past ten years desires to learn what kind of young men they have become and how prepared to face the challenges of life ahead of them. he devises a test and uses deception to lure them into it.

Kit Andrews, owner of Rocky Mountain Searchers, receives a request from a woman in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to locate her missing son. Her son, a twenty-seven-year-old ex-Marine, disappeared two years before after being discharged from the Marine Corps at the conclusion of two tours of duty in Iraq as a scout sniper. The woman requires Kit to travel from Kemmerer, Wyoming, to Santa Fe to meet with her personally. When Kit arrives in New Mexico, he receives a shocking surprise about the identi...