Puma Son of Mountain Lion is a half-Indian boy who is away from the village undergoing the rites of manhood. When he returns, he finds his village destroyed by a warring tribe and his family slain. His mother dies in his arms and her last words are: "Go find your father."Puma finds his father in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His father welcomes him with open arms and trains him in the while man's ways.

A Man Called Ty is history, heroism, and adventure.The Civil War has ended, but his father has not come home. At his mother's urging, young Ty Terel goes in search for him. When Ty returns, carpetbaggers have killed his mother and sister and taken his land. Ty is no gunfighter, but he is a brave young man; a showdown occurs, and he avenges their death. Ty then must flee into the wild, untamed West. He is chased by a Union major who is determined to bring Ty in and see him hanged.

Danny is the son of a son of a frontiersman who settled in the American West in what came to be called Indian Territory, before the government under President Andrew Jackson assigned portions of the land to the Five Civilized Tribes, the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole Indians. They were called civilized because they lived like white men, but they were dislocated by people moving into their ancestral homes after the Civil War. The land assigned to the Choctaw was land tha...

A tribe of stone aged people lived in a village of caves carved into a sandstone cliff by a stream that flowed into a valley shrouded by a perpetual mist. The village was called Lalock, and the Lalocks called the Valley of Mist the valley of death, because a few people entered the mist but none returned. The Lalocks worshiped fire, but they were unhappy because the wicked High Priest ruled with an iron hand and sacrificed anyone who defied him to the fire.Before girls could marry, ...

About half of the immigrants who came to the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were indentured. This practice carried on well into the nineteenth century in a smaller scale.The term "indentured servant" is just another way of saying you signed a paper agreeing to work without wages for a given number of years to pay for your passage to the New World. It was a heavy price to pay, but it was the only way the landless people of Europe's feudal system could g...

Can a woman, beautiful beyond a man's dreams, find love through the search for it in the unbridled lust for sex, so raw that it reaches the point of violence? Can a man's love be strong enough to endure watching the woman he loves, make love to a man so handsome that the woman he loves desires him even though he is a scoundrel? Can the man or the woman search for a lost city of gold that contains a wealth beyond measure retain sense of normalcy after they find it? And should they find it, ...

After thousands of years of atomic warfare, the Antons on planet Ergo had mutated so badly that they were no longer recognizable as human. They escaped to planet Duos in Galaxy 3 and established a new civilization. They wanted to restore their bodies, so they searched the universe and found people living on Earth in the thirty-first century with perfect bodies. The Antons wanted to use the earthlings' DNA, but the earthlings had powerful weapons and wouldn't allow the Antons to enter their...

Hard times have hit Troy Dean Talbert's family in Oklahoma. His father Tom has been losing his crop to drought. The bank forecloses on their farm, which forces Tom to move his family to California. However, an incident occurs that allows Troy to graduate from high school and not have to move west with the family. He hopes to marry his sweetheart but instead she marries someone else. He is devastated, joins England's Royal Air Force, and becomes a hero in the war.Troy is wounded bad...

William Wayne "Bill" Dicksion was born the fourth child, and the third son of William Madden, a poor rancher/farmer, and his wife, Almeda, in Oklahoma. "Wayne," as he was called in his younger days, not to be confused with his father's name, was precocious and trouble was his lot in life. Later, he picked up the nickname "Bill."The brief moments begin when Wayne is five years old and recorded until he becomes a man being part of the great migration to a new life in rapidly developi...

The universe contains billions upon billions of galaxies, and many of those galaxies contain multiple billions of planets. Perhaps, among those planets, there are worlds where people can reside.New Worlds to Conquer is a sequel to A Button in the Fabric of Time, about Gus, a twenty-first century engineer, who travels into the thirty-first century. There he meets a beautiful woman, marries her, and works with her to produce a—heaven on earth—where people never grow old.To sa...

Still half asleep, Michael looked up at his parents sitting on the buckboard of their covered wagon and saw an arrow penetrate his father's chest. Then he saw his mother being dragged from the wagon by two Indians. She was fighting them with all her might. He watched as one of the Indians hit her with his stone ax. His mother fell from the wagon and disappeared from his sight and from his life forever.Now he was alone. "Sagebrush" tells of how Michael survived the Indian attack and ...