It's 1974 and young stonemason Harlan Kemp rides West in his vintage Land Rover truck to Montana in search of independence. The Old West is gone, but violent elements of it still intrude, and he finds...

Colin Barnes is a down-on-his-luck builder and things couldn't get any worse. But they're about to. Colin Barnes is a top contractor, doing high-end restorations for appreciative, well-heeled clients....

A classic of early American architecture, the hewn-log house has a unique rustic charm and character. In this engaging and informative guide, Charles McRaven provides illustrated step-by-step instructions...

Get that metal hot and start hammering! Setting up your own forge and crafting everyday items is easier than you might think. With simple methods, easy-to-follow photographs, and insightful tips, you’ll...

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than...

Revolutionary War veteran sharpshooter Stephen Davis searches for the reality of the old saying. that all it takes is, "Two people and a piece of ground."Revolutionary War veteran sharpshooter Stephen...

The war that none of them wanted rages around them, although the ending is nearing, with its losses, its devastation. Tranquilla must hold as much together as she can: her people, the land, remnants of...

Tranquilla Taylor McRaven, widowed twice, educated and freed her inherited slaves, amid censure and condemnation in 1800s Mississippi. She bore eleven children, held her family together through loss,...

Ride with Cole Campbell, driven by nightmares from the Civil War in his search for a new life and hidden silver. He runs afoul of evil in the person of a grasping opportunist bent on owning everything,...

In this prequel to Pricking of my Thumbs, adventurous carpenter Wesley Whitestone finds herself on the Mexican border, following one of the mysterious 'messages' she receives. She's not sure why here...

Stephen Davis, Revolutionary War veteran sharpshooter, follows Anna, the girl he's slighted, into the Kentucky mountains to a lost creek village. He courts, wins her, and the two build their home and...

Tranquilla Taylor should have been a pampered Southern belle, and indeed was courted by two suitors who were best friends. But this hard-riding, straight-shooting rebel scandalized Mississippi planter...

Widowed mountain minister Carroll Lewis and his music director Maran MaComb stumble onto a plot among disaffected ex-military and biker communes to lash out at what they see as a repressive system. But...

Searching for an escape from the construction rat race and a troubled marriage, craftsman Liam McLeod drops out at age 70 and builds a retreat in a hidden, stony mountain cleft. He seeks peace, but the...

Landing in Charlottesville, Virginia, itinerant girl carpenter Wesley Whitestone scores the ideal job with the ideal boss, the restoration of a historic plantation house. But she stumbles onto a drug...