James Luke Landon was born in the United States to a father who was a cotton farmer and a shrewd business man. After the Civil War, labor was almost impossible to find to work the cotton fields. Luke's...

It took Beacher longer than he figured to find the Colorado River. By the time he made camp, the sun was at the west back. "Just right," he said to himself. He cut some bank poles and found some toad...

A man named Conner was signing people up for a wagon train going to Oregon, leaving in the spring. Conner had a flyer that made it seem like a paradise. Seth had one of the flyers and showed it to his...

US Marshal Sam Bass, the first black marshal, was living an easy life. He'd retired from riding the trails and chasing outlaws, and was comfortable with just being Judge Isaac Parker's right hand. While...

Jud Low was eighteen years old, from the East, and as green as could be when is father decided to pull up stakes and set them on the Oregon Trail. Not far from Abilene, Kansas, the two were put out of...

Red O'Fallon had helped Sheriff John McKenzie of Fort Worth and a couple of Texas Rangers, track down and safely return the kidnapped niece of his boss, rancher John Chisolm. Content with working as foreman...

Me and Beacher rode south from my cabin in the general direction of Cairo, Illinois. I remembered Pop saying there was a horse-shoe bend in the river as it turned back north. It was still and always shallower,...

Dan Brady and Jimmy Ray. One of white lineage, the other of Indian decent. Brothers by choice (and possibly necessity) from being raised in a Chicago orphanage run by nuns. They parted ways after being...

That got me to thinking. What if Beacher remembered my name was Horton, not Tolbert? And, what would he do if he found out I had shot my superior officer and deserted the Army? I was probably reported...

Jud Low had been through his share of hard times and troubles. He'd seen his friend killed, the ranch and cattle stolen. But Jud and his partner, Ted Lewis, had taken revenge for their friend and gotten...

Raised in an orphanage and deemed by the nuns who looked after him as another "Casualty of War," John never knew his real last name. It wasn't until years later, by fate, that he took a name that would...