It was 1850, and fourteen-year-old Johnny James, an orphan to the streets of Boston, decided to go to the goldfields of California and leave the desperation of the slums behind.  He'd heard the stories...

Why was he sleeping on the floor, Jack asked himself when he woke up, and why did his head hurt so bad?  They were in jail again, Billy answered, and they were getting out of this town, whatever its name...

When Ted Keyes fled to Cabo San Lucas, it was a quiet and remote little fishing village.  The perfect place where no one knew him, and he would never be found.  He bought a charter boat business from...

A small town on the Oregon Coast, Beach Town is the descendant of the once-thriving logging and fishing industries which have since fallen into decline, giving way to the vagaries of tourism.  The mayor...

That is what they were doing all right.  Most other folks couldn't believe it either.  Those two and their pet cat, who had no name, looking for paradise?  It was the wise old sea turtle who told Burt...

Mad Bear and Big Wolf wouldn't have left Talking Rock Reservation if they hadn't been drunk, but they were, after three days and nights of drinking.  This was 1880 and Indians weren't allowed off of the...

Sonja Pretty Flower couldn't understand how her husband, Billy Bad Feather, could be so mistaken.  His fights in town only led to one more night in jail.  This was 1972, surely he could see he wasn't...

Kaimana and his father, Slim, are sailing their cargo hauler from Lahaina, Maui to Honolulu when they are attacked by a humpback whale that holes their boat, causing water to pour into their small ship.....

In 1877, one year after the Sioux and Cheyenne defeated General George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Talking Elk, a prominent war chief, rides in with Crazy Horse to surrender at Fort Robinson...

In 1850, fifteen-year-old Jonas Abrams signs on with Captain Will Johnson to sail his fifty-seven-foot cutter, Wander, from the Chesapeake Bay to St. Thomas Island in the Caribbean Sea where Captain Will...