After Trevor’s father is killed in a mining accident and his mother dies a questionable death, Trevor is alone on the streets during the cusp of the Civil War. He gets into trouble with the local law where the Chief of Police takes pity on him and convinces the Judge to allow Trevor to join the Army instead of going to jail. The story of Trevor runs during the Civil War from 1861 to the first part of 1865 when he is mustered out of the Sixth Pennsylvania Calvary. Trevor Lane and the Civil ...

At the start of the Civil War, Jake Taylor joined General Jackson to help the South. After leaving home, outlaws dressed as Union soldiers raided their farm. After the raid, Luke, Jake’s oldest son, starts a journey to find his father and the outlaws. The Taylors were a family of farmers in Virginia. They struggled with the hardships of the Civil War, suffering the loss of a life and their family properties. They simply wanted to farm, raise cattle, and live a peaceful existence; however, ...

When Luke Taylor's father leaves home to fight for the South in the Civil War, it's up to Luke to be the man of his family. Luke struggles to keep his family safe as Union soldiers march through the South burning crops, destroying buildings, and killing livestock. When a band of renegades dressed as Union soldiers attacks his home, killing his brother and beating him and his mother, Luke must leave the farm to find his father. Luke and his father return to see their farm facing a new threa...

Join Luke and Trevor as their adventures continue. They fight outlaws and Indians while heading west. After reaching Independence, Luke and Trevor join a wagon train. On this wagon train the two boys discover old friends are travelling with them. The Wrights are relatives of an old friend who had saved Trevor's life earlier during the war. The Dailys had met Luke when he was in St Louis and were on the train with them. All of their old friends welcome each other and recount good times from...

After arriving in Colorado, Raquel and Trevor get married and claim land under the Homestead Act. Luke and Dancing Flower want to go further west but stay the winter to the help Trevor build their new home. Luke, thinking about getting land but not wanting to settle down, still has the itch to go further west. When spring comes, he and Dancing Flower head into the Colorado Mountains. After a conflict at a stage stop where a man takes offense to eating with a squaw, Luke knocks him to the f...

Now they had to decide if they were going to continue going west or if they were going to go back east. Either direction they thought about could cause hardship or death. West was a hard life with no help except from each other. Back east could mean death by hanging for both of them. After escaping from the Confederate prison, Trevor Lane is befriended by Margret Wright and her two children who find him in their woods more dead than alive and save his life. Once regaining his strength, Tre...

What drew people into the rugged San Juan Mountains, and what made them stay? After traveling repeatedly to Silverton and researching its past at the local Historical Society, author Lowell F. Volk set out to uncover the origins of one of Colorado's most storied mining towns.The Early Days of Silverton traces the region's history from Spanish explorers of the 1500s and 1600s, chasing legends of gold in Quivira and the Seven Cities of Cibola, through the era of fur trappers, and int...

In the fifth book of the Milo Ryder US Marshal Series, Milo stumbles upon an abandoned ranch that sparks his interest as a potential purchase. Seeking more information, he approaches Clyde Stevens at the local real estate office, hoping to learn who owns it. Clyde uncovers that the ranch once belonged to the Hawkins family, who were tragically murdered by outlaws—killers who were never caught. Will Clyde find the current owners, and will Milo be able to secure the ranch?Life at the...

Book One of the Milo Ryder US Marshal SeriesWhen Milo Ryder retires as US Marshal, he moves to Purgatoire Valley in Colorado to seek peace and spend more time with his wife, Hannah. But trouble erupts when a horse carrying Gentry Soyer wanders onto the ranch. Gentry nearly falls from his saddle and is bleeding from a gunshot wound to his chest. Not able to leave the incident alone, Milo looks for the men responsible. Will finding a resolution to this mean the end o...

When Jake Burton hears that his father is murdered, he leaves Texas for his Colorado home in the Mancos Valley to seek justice. However, he takes a detour after helping the Hamman family fend off an Indian attack around their covered wagon. Adam Hamman is killed in the attack, leaving behind his widow, Elizabeth, and their son, Greg. Unwilling to leave them alone in the prairie, Jake takes them with him to Colorado.After reaching his ranch in the Mancos Valley, Jake notices that ma...

The Colorado territory is in desperate need of brave men of good character to help bring law and order to the ever-increasing number of settlers in the region. After Milo Ryder is drawn out of retirement to capture a hardened criminal in Lowell F. Volk's previous book, Purgatoire Valley, he is recruited back into a permanent position as a US Marshal. Milo agrees, stipulating that he will be working his ranch in Purgatoire Valley and can only take on a limited number of cases. But ...

Life at Ryder Ranch has returned to normal until the day three men enter the Stonewall Mercantile while Hannah and Maria are shopping for fabric with Ester. One of the men, called Knox, grabs Maria’s arm and won’t let go. Hannah reacts, slugging Knox in the face and busting his nose. Then she grabs a stove shovel and knocks him out. The other men back away, but as they drag their friend out of the store, they threaten Hannah, Maria, and Ester. This is how things begin, but it isn’t the end...