Wyatt's Deck
Weslynn McCallister
Paperback: 236 pages
Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x 8.00 x 5.00
Publisher: Jada Press; (March 2004)
$9.95

Join the McKinneys, Youngers, and others in the 13 pioneer/western short stories in "The Americans" as they migrate westward through the Appalachian Mountains, across the Great Plains, and into the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Discover how the McKinney clan invested their blood, sweat, and lives as they helped build America.

Renowned Arizona lawman Jacob Golden is having terrible nightmares. He dreams he’s locked in a battle to the death with a demon from hell that consumes human flesh. Golden’s a man who fears little, yet this haunting vision terrifies him to the depths of his very soul. And, just when he should be the happiest man alive. He’s finally hung up his tin star after 20 years as a lawman; he has a lovely new Spanish bride; and he and his wife are preparing to move away from Arizona forever to begin a serene new life together in southern California. That’s when all hell breaks loose. A sadistic, cannibalistic killer escapes from Yuma Territorial Prison and begins methodically butchering Jake’s friends and plotting his gruesome revenge against the only lawman who had ever captured him – Marshal Jake Golden. Sometimes, retirement just isn’t what you hoped it would be.

A ranch foreman finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder in Wyoming, circa 1864. On the run and badly wounded, he hides out at an old remote cabin on the Oregon Trail in the legendary South Pass where he meets up with a young pregnant widowed Irish woman. They team up to survive their circumstances. For Chess Cates it is surviving the gunshot wound and the true killer who is after him. For Kate O'Keefe, it is dealing with the death of her father and the premature baby coming sooner than expected. They must seek the help of Cheyenne Indians. Ultimately the innocent and the guilty must confront one another, the odds seemingly grim for the Accidental Outlaw.

Massacre at Bend-in-the-River

Wealthy and powerful men can easily overlook that there are good men who should not be pushed too far. Such was the case in central Texas in 1886 when an ex-soldier returned from the battleground to work on a ranch. Being a veteran of that Great War called Civil, he was a man who knew how to fight should the spirit move him. And the spirit of a young boy and a beautiful woman did move him. (Novella length)

Max Blake: The Killing Trail
William Florence | 0971851123  paperback " 238 pp
" $14.95

The Killing Trail is the first in a series of western novels about Max Blake, Federal Marshal. The Marshal rides after some of the toughest killers ever to ride the border country of Arizona in this fast-paced, action-filled adventure novel.
Here's what they're saying about The Killing Trail:
"A hell-bent-for-leather ride in the tradition of Louis L'Amour ... leaves you wanting more Max Blake as he rides into the sunset of this Western gem." —Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of "Lucky Lady."
"A hell of a ride from a hell of a story-teller." —Peter Vanderwall, award-winning screenwriter for "Uneasy Listening," "Rogue River," "Transference," and "Memory Chips"
"If you like your Westerns like you like your steaks, well-done and and sizzling with action, then Bill Florence's Max Blake is just the right cut for you."   —Gary Husman, Publisher, Redmond (Oregon) Spokesman.

Wolf Mountain
L. J. Martin | 078601573X  paperback " 352 pp
" $5.99

"A good fist-slinging, gunslinging read."
William W. Johnstone

The McQuades must get 200 head of cattle down the Yellowstone to Miles and his 5th Infantry, through Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Sioux. And fresh from the Little Big Horn, the Indians are riding wild with blood on their blades.

Stranahan
L. J. Martin | 0786014997 paperback " 320 pp
" $5.95

A rip-roaring old time western in the Louis L'Amour tradition. By the author of Blood Mountain, Wolf Mountain, and many more.

Nobody knows the law like a man who's been on the wrong side of it...

Sam Stranahan's an honest man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just as he arrives in the Judith country in Montana, he's arrested for robbing the Bozeman stage and killing a shotgun guard. Desperate to reach his long-lost brother in Helena, and knowing he doesn't stand a chance with this version of the law, Sam breaks loose--and rides hard and deep into the mountains.

By the time he comes out again, Sam's been honed sharp as a knife. He's fought his way through a bloody struggle with Indians and outrun a posse that wants him to hang. But his troubles are far from over. Finishing the journey he started--to find his brother--Sam walks into an explosive case of murder. His ride through hell and back has made Sam's next step clear: to pick up a gun and make sure some justice finally gets done...with our without the law.

Frederick J. Chiaventone has been selected to receive the annual "Wrangler Award" for "Moon of Bitter Cold" as the Best Novel of the American West 2002

To the Lakota people, the white man--the wasichus--appeared first as a curiosity but soon turned into a plague. Frustrated and powerless, the proud Lakota Sioux war leader Red Cloud watched helplessly as the wasichus became as plentiful as the grass on the fields, draining the land of its resources, and introducing metal guns and knives, along with the water that makes men crazy. Red Cloud knows that if something is not done soon, there will be no land for his infant son to call his own.

To some he was controversial, to others he was charismatic, but in an unprecedented act, Red Cloud unites the Sioux with the Cheyenne, Arapho and Crow, assembling over three-thousand warriors in what will go down in history as "Red Clouds War." It was an act that would never be equaled, as the Indians defeat the white man in battle after battle, finally bring the U.S. government to the bargaining table, where they sue for peace.

One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus