After serving in the Civil War with Mosbys Rangers, Kelly Andrews wanted a quiet life away from people. He found such a job as a cowboy near Springfield, Missouri. After three years, the owner sold his ranch, and the new owner had his own crew. This set Kelly on his way west to find a new life. He stopped in Coffeeville to change a gold piece into smaller money. While he was in the bank, robbers came in and ordered the customers to the floor. Kelly was lying beside a young woman who was fr...

A New Eden takes a young man, Gary Moore, through the Civil War and then through his next fifteen to twenty years. Gary is educated while driving a supply wagon during the war. His helper was Prof. Adam Stewart from Brown University. He lectures Gary for the next three years as if he were in the classroom. Gary is elated to get an education. Stewart had taught ethics and the Bible at Brown and gave Gary the foundation for his life.Gary meets a woman in St. Louis whose husband is si...

Sid Porter was raised in and around Junction, Texas. He fell in love when he was twelve years old with a woman thirty years his senior. When he was nineteen, she hired Sid, and he worked for her for two years. She then had to let him go because of a draught. Although she loved Sid like a son, she only realized that she was in love with him after they parted. Sid traveled to Mexico, where he embraced the land and its people. He wrote love letters to his sweetheart every week he was gone. Th...

Pure Love is a short but intense novel that demonstrates the love between two people at a much-deeper level than normal humans love each other. Their love starts at an early age and takes them through some of their adult life. Some of the language and love is somewhat graphic, but it depicts human nature. The story starts when Betty Sue is only eight and Alan is twelve. They both lost their parents to the Spanish flu, which occurred during and just after World War I. Alan had lost his sist...

At the age of thirteen, Ben Carson (Lee) was on a wagon train that was ambushed by Indians. Miraculously, he was saved from the slaughter when he was inadvertently locked under the seat of their wagon. He was the lone survivor. After burying his parents and two sisters, he continued west on foot. He met an Indian who had been kicked out of his tribe and left to die. The Indian had been schooled by missionaries and spoke excellent English. The two became friends and decided to form their ow...

This is the story of a boy who was left by his family to travel to California while he went to school. Their son, Brady Scott, after finishing high school, entered the military academy at West Point. On the first day, he met his roommate, Colin Smith. Smith would have an influence on Brady and two other friends for the rest of their lives. The story tells several love stories, along with the adventures, not only in the war, but before and after. It tells how a woman cast a spell on Brady a...

Much like The Evolution of Nora, Darlene takes a young girl through her trials in life. She is seduced by a teacher as a teenager and that haunts her until she seeks psychiatric help. The help she receives is a good story. Darlene becomes a lawyer in New York City and has many interesting stories of her law cases. She has some interesting friends who help develop the story. The story deals with social problems and alternative life styles. It also has a few love stories which are intertwine...

Alan Taylor was reared by an ex-Texas Ranger in Central Texas. While his father was off to the Civil War a friend of his aunt taught Alan how to use a handgun. After three years of practicing, Alan became very skilled with its use. A friend of the gunsmith was an ex-prize fighter. He taught Alan how to use his fists. At 18 Alan was well over six feet and with the prize fighters teaching, became as skilled with his fists as he was a gun.Alan got into a fight with the foreman of a ra...

Marvin Ellis starts out for California at age nineteen. He joins a cattle drive that he caught up to. Unknown to him, the cattle were stolen. The owner and his men catch up to them and only through his ingenuity of hiding along a creek did he keep from being hung. He was now on foot but ran into a Mexican woman and her two children. They were alone as bandits had killed the husband. Marvin joins them as they need him. They are headed for Chihuahua City. Marvin couldnt leave them by themsel...

The Riflemen, in one way, is a love story about two boys, Jake Garrett and Johnny Grubbs and their childhood sweethearts. They meet their wives in the first grade, who are identical twin. The story takes Jake and Johnny through the horrific Civil War. Their stories tell some of the historical parts of the war and shows much of the struggles each boy endures during the war.After the war, they come home to find their parents have disappeared and their ranches in the hands of a ruthle...

The first colony planted in North America was on Roanoke Island in 1597. The company who planted this colony promised to return the following year with supplies and more people. However England went to war that year and the supply ships were taken by the king to help in the war effort. It was over three years before the ships returned to Roanoke Island. When they arrived not a trace of the colony was found. No one has ever been able to find out what happened to them.This book, alth...

A precocious child, Thomas Benson, has all the resources to pursue his academics until his last year in medical school. Ft. Sumner is fired upon, and the war is on. His mother and his professors do their best to keep Thomas out of the war so he can complete the last year of medical school. However, this angers the war department, and he is conscripted into the military. Instead of sending him to the medical unit, he is sent to the infantry. As he has a college degree, he is given a commiss...