Contemplating the multitude of facets that are required to sustain a flourishing of mankind on earth, the author contends that Divine Providence should be accepted as an undeniable reality.
In the 1800s, the great and uncharted American West promised a glimmer of hope to poor folks east of the Mississippi River in need of new adventure and new life.
A natural tracker does all he can to help a woman escape the Dakota TerritoryWhen the harsh winters of the Black Hills snuffed out his father's life, Miles Donovan was left with no inheritance but knowledge of every trail, creek, and ridge in the Dakota territories.
On a broken ankle, a vengeful man carves a path into hellJohn Dancer hauls himself out of bed and stuffs his swollen ankle into his boot, gritting his teeth through the pain.
Run off his land, a rancher is forced to take the most dangerous job in town: marshalJulius Lang is chatting with the marshal when the killers ride down Main Street, and he doesn't have time to reach for his gun before a storm of bullets cuts the lawman down.
Framed for murder, an honest man rides over the desert to clear his nameJake Shockley has his feet up in the tavern when his twin comes through the door.
In a deserted cabin on the Great Plains, a settler tries to make a homeRincon and his two companions ride out of the frigid night, and demand shelter in the sagging old cabin.
In a deserted western town, two drifters fight to stay aliveThe place is called Hangtown, and it's as dead as a man with a noose cinched 'round his neck.
Rescued by settlers, an injured lawman fights to regain his memoryHis horse shot out from under him, the sheriff scrambles across ragged wasteland, desperate to outrun the four riders behind him.
After two years in jail, a cowboy searches for his sweetheartIt's bold for a cowhand to woo his boss's daughter, but John Tanner can't help loving Becky Canasta.
Driven off their land, a gang of settlers turns to a life of crimeA few miles outside of town lies the Tanglewood, a savage maze choked with inedible plants and overrun with deadly animals.
Flat broke and crippled, a cowhand takes a job from a doomed manAt the end of a backbreaking cattle drive, a steer turns on Joe Sample, pinning him against a fence and snapping his leg.
A soldier returns home to find his family at war with itselfWhen Russell Bates gets his father's message that the family ranch is in trouble, he does not hesitate to ask his commander for leave.
In the Arizona wasteland, a wanderer meets a man he cannot trustCameron Black gallops across the alkali flats on a stolen horse, a Henry rifle at his side.
Desperate for a kill, a mysterious hunting party invades a settler's landYears ago, Lee Trent did a favor for the Cheyenne, who rewarded him by setting aside a parcel of land where no man but he could hunt, trap, or homestead.
A settler returns to the town he founded to burn it to the groundWhen Tom Quinn first came to the little patch of prairie that would become Stratton, it wasn't paradise, but it was close.
Near death, a gunman finds safe haven-and a new life-in an outlaw townTucker finds Chase Carver huddled in an alleyway behind a restaurant, fighting wild dogs for scraps of food.
In a lonely western town, a marshal stands in the way of a gang of killersThere is nothing to love about the town of Climax, a godforsaken speck of earth with one saloon, one restaurant, and one lawman.
While searching for his cousin, a cowpuncher uncovers a dark family secretAfter a hard drive from Texas, cowhand Tracy Keyes finds himself in Abilene, Kansas, with money to burn.
In search of a kidnapped boy, a gunslinger takes a young girl along for the rideRain looms over the prairie when Matt Holiday sees a gang of horsemen abduct the boy.
In a small Montana town, a poor boy gets a chance at being a lawmanMac McPherson shivers beside the open grave, taking notes for a newspaper story for which he has been promised twenty-five cents.
The first great Western, a story of courage and adventure in Utah canyon countryWhen Jane Withersteen's father dies, he leaves her in sole possession of the family's cattle ranch, situated on one of the most valuable pieces of land in Utah.
The novel that introduced the first great American hero: the cowboyThe Virginian cuts an impressive figure when the unnamed narrator of Owen Wister's groundbreaking novel first encounters him in Medicine Bow, Wyoming.
Exiled from his people, a Cheyenne fighter searches for a warThe party of young Cheyenne warriors is returning home from a successful hunt when their leader, Panther Burn, spies a wayward Creek scout.
As France and Britain wage battle over America, one man takes the war into his own handsTwo lines of Abenaki Indians stand between the settlers and freedom.
Raised by the Apache, a young boy joins the US Army and becomes a legend of the Old WestGeronimo himself hears the baby crying in the burned-out campsite, surrounded by the bodies of the boy's family.
Torn apart by betrayal, two brothers search for each other on the Western plainsWhile their family's wagon train stops for a rest, Jacob Milam goes hunting with his younger brother, Tom.
Stricken by amnesia, Ben McQueen must confront his own past to escape a bitter conflict south of the borderIsabella is on her way to bury her husband when the Comanche attack.
To save New Orleans from the British, a soldier makes a pact with a pirateIn 1815, the fate of the young American nation will be determined at New Orleans.
In the Texas desert, a soldier fights Rangers, Indians, and the woman he lovesDona Anabel Cordero gallops across the moonlit desert, a tribe of Comanche warriors at her heels.
