Twin boys born only twelve minutes apart but would become separated by centuries.Matthew Walker was born at six minutes before midnight on February the twenty eighth and his brother Marcus born at six...

"He's nothing but a kid," said the big man."Maybe so," said Boot, "but I told you what I saw.""Was that before or after you started in drinking Boot? ""Somebody ask him." Looking at me he said, "can you...

The mountains of the American West held many treasures. Precious metals such as gold and silver was taken from the land and the streams by the miners. Animals who's pelts were prized back East  was taken...

John Smith had been abandoned by his mother soon after being born. Found and raised by a Catholic priest who gave him his name and without knowing it his occupation throughout his life. He was forced...

Billy Joe Green knew one thing for sure. He had not committed the murder he was about to be hanged for. There was a way to clear himself of it, but he would never use it. It could mean the ruin of the...

When Alex Karnes wakes from a two-week coma in the home of a neighbor and learns what happened he finds the world he spent the last eight years building has all been taken by a madman out to rebuild the...

When his parents are killed in an accident on his twenty first birthday and with the Civil War looming over the heads of all, young Walter {Wat] Russell sells the grand plantation he was born and raised...

Young Dan Gates had grown up never knowing his mother. All his father had ever told him was that she had died giving birth to him and her name was Masilda. Shortly after his eighteenth birthday there...

When the Hayes Family left their farm in Terre Haute Indiana in the spring of 1844 to travel the Oregon Trail to the west coast of America, twelve year old Henry knew it would be an adventurous and life...

Stryker leaves Lone Pine and the California Mountains behind for the last time. He's going home to raise his daughter, as it should be. Little did he know that someone else had different plans for him....

As the west filled with people after the war. Lawless-ness ran rampant for a time but despite popular belief not all of the murders committed were by outlaw gangs, greedy land barons or drunken cowboys...

Conceived in violence himself, Vernon Dodd would live his whole life and die in that same kind of violence by his own making.From his years as a long range shooter during the Civil War to his days as...

Nick Waters had never wanted to be anything but what he was born. The son of an Iowa farmer. Then after his pa was killed in the war between the states and his ma died of fever he decided to go into the...

Years after leaving that little ranch in Texas John still has a few battles to fight. Mainly with how to get the woman he's in love with to agree to marry him. It don't help that John and her father can't...

Matthew Michaels was born in 1804 on the western border of North Carolina. A town called River Mills. As a kid, his name was shortened to Matt by the other boys and then after seeing the way all dogs...

When the sheriff of Abilene is gunned down by a ruthless gang of Mexican bandit brothers, young deputy Jake Canon swears that he will bring them back dead or alive or be killed in trying.He would never...

Everyone around Carson City knew the legend of Tobin Wilkes. How he and two partners had went in search of a fortune in Indian gold.  One partner is killed by the Indians but he and Elmer Atwood are allowed...

When Victoria Morrison's husband of twenty-five years is gunned down by four drifters on their ranch in Laramie, she contacts her father back in Boston. He in turns puts her in touch with the head man...

Coburn joined the Union Army, although he and his parents were living on a small farm just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. When the war was over he boarded a train for home, not knowing that the farm had...

From early in his life, Rembrandt 'Rem' de Lange had one thing in mind. He meant to find the renegade Union soldiers that had murdered his family. He never thought he would become hunted himself for a...

When an orphaned half breed Apache boy named Romeo is accused of killing the daughter of a rich ranch owner in Texas, he is forced to run for his life. After making some great friends in a small town...

Benjamin Franklin Blackstone married the girl of his dreams, Sarah, and raised eight boys in the hills outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Life may not have been easy, but it was good for them all. When...

Isom Moody and Baptiste Lagare found a lost Spanish mine full of gold. They had to leave it because of the Apache.Baptiste was killed during a poker game. Isom killed the man that killed Baptiste and...

After Walter and a miner they have befriended named Donel shows John the amount of money to be made from the gold without destroying the much needed creek John relents. He even makes plans of how to use...

Three and a half years as a Confederate soldier and another year and a half in a prisoner of war stockade had made Jack Salter wonder at times if he'd even survive. When the war was over he was released...

Dirk Hardy was sleeping off the remains of his thirtieth birthday party when he was awakened by two gunmen in his apartment. Told he was being taken back to Sacramento, California to stand trial for robbery...

The railroads could not keep up with the men who ventured farther and farther into the west. That meant the first cattle ranchers in these new lands had to push large herds of cattle for many miles to...

When both their parents are killed by Union soldiers near Collierville Tennessee at the end of the civil war, fourteen year old Albert Mitchell takes himself and his eight year old sister Penny across...

After the death of his beloved wife on their wedding day, Wen Stryker found himself lost. He helped his father-in-law, Tate, purchase a river boat, then he headed off into the vast lands of Texas. Eventually,...

From a Civil War orphan in a small town in Alabama he moved west and rode the river boats of the Mississippi as a gambler. Westward again and he found himself the sheriff of a small town. From there he...