Two families break up their homes and travel from the east by wagon train across the open prairie to build a ranch in the wild open undeveloped range land not far from the mountains in western Montana.
Uncontrollable hallucinations, anorexic demons, and revolting apparitions, center stage a period in the 1800s already guilt-riddled with a moral sense of judgment.
After having served his country for twelve years, four of which included duty during those turbulent years of the Civil War, William Pap Paprich has decided to retire from the restraints of military life.
The story is about a family; Immigrant from Ireland who find work in early America, the lead character finds love as he grows; both in his job and life; work for the most was more manual, many thing done by hand not machines, the families they worked together and helped each other, these families worship together and trust God for their safety and daily needs; it also tells of some of the struggles they fight with in life; both in work and love.
Cody Winters, a former lawman and most recently a trapper in the rugged northern wilderness of Arizona, was headed for Camp Wooda town where he hoped to settle down and begin a new life for himself.
In the Black Hills, Dakota Territory in 1873, budding romance ends in tragedy resulting in Jim Earlys obsessive pursuit of a giant grizzly to the ultimate, bloody finale.
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.