In the ruins of a Scottish dungeon, an archeology professor finds the journal of a long-dead knight revealing the location of a vanished treasure. An 1898 shadow organization is also after the treasure and Professor McGinnis' life. Marcus Flood, former monk, becomes the professor's bodyguard. With the professor's niece, they go after the treasure deep in the American southwest.

A gang of counterfeiters plans to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln from its Springfield tomb on election night, 1876, then demand ransom from the Illinois governor. Sterling Packard, undercover Secret Service agent, infiltrates the gang and tries to thwart the plot. When the train bearing Lincoln's hidden body is robbed by Jesse James' gang, and Packard is caught in a perilous situation.

In 1849 three routes existed to the California gold fields: wagon train; around Cape Horn; and across the Gulf of Mexico, overland through Panama and up the west coast. Three parties take one route each—two men fleeing a murder charge, another man pursuing them, and a Melungian family from East Tennessee. How their lives touch each other is the focus of this gold rush adventure.

Marcel Dupre, condemned to the penal colony at French Guiana, writes an expose of life in the Foreign Legion and in the penal colony. He finally escapes by sea and reaches the U.S. where he hopes to have his book published. Agents of the shaky French government will do anything to destroy him and his expose. A Wells Fargo messenger is dispatched to find and assist him.

Three bandits made off with $30,000 in gold and buried it in secret. When the gang leader is released from prison, ex-railroad detective Marc Charvein follows his prey to the hidden treasure—in a ghost town called Lodestar.

Caswell McCarthy was no hero. The very idea of such a thing had never crossed his mind. Yet he had cheated to give himself the short straw when the five exhausted men had drawn to see who would stay behind. He felt he was the only one who had the slightest chance of slowing down the pursuing war party of Chiricahua Apaches.

In Dawson City, Bill Carmody fires two bullets into Cache Swenson, his former partner who had stolen all the gold dust from their claim.The only route for escape is the Yukon River, but to do it, he and Chilcoot Charlie will have to steal a boat, and already a Mountie is after them.

The men kept re-enlisting, they were all battle-hardened troopers. The Lieutenant was not respectful of the men, yet he expected extreme respect. It seems that the men knew how to act, for the good of the Service.

Cañon de los Embudos, Mexico - It's 1886 and General George Crook is holding a peace conference with the last wild band of Apache renegades and their chief, Geronimo. The Apaches are expected to lay down their arms and go peacefully to Arizona - until Geronimo disappears into the night with a small band of warriors.A treaty with Mexico allows the U.S. Army to track the hostiles into Mexican territory. General Nelson A. Miles replaces General Crook and oversees the final effort to c...

Accused of murder, an innocent man struggles for freedom and for sanity. The first of a series which follows this antihero through the depths of human agony, along a slow flowing river through a fictitious American southwest. A dark western with elements of the supernatural; stream of consciousness ramblings of a madman; and the unlikely possibility of a better life - a life just out of his reach.

Egan, the Story of Two Families. The sons of Dean and Egan and several others with them, do not feel the restrictions of details over action against a lawless leader of a rapacious gang of bad bad people.In this case, chasing these people into a foreign country is not limited by border agreements or political grandstanding. It's only limited by the imaginatioThis is the second volume in the series, Dean and n of the good people who find that right is merely doing the proper things t...

A lonely old prospector is found dead in his own doorway, shot with his own gun. Lambert had few friends and even less money. Word is, he didn’t have an enemy in the world. Marshall Mike Baxter isn’t buying it—not until he knows a lot more about poor old Lambert. A short story in the classic Western tradition.