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It is 1874. Now that peace has been established between the United States Army and the Comanche nation, citizens who lost children to Comanche raids over the ears are pressuring Congress for their return. The Comanches would rather resume the war than submit to this degradation.

Based on a true story, this book tells of the Peaceful Basin War-the bloodiest range war in the history of the West.

An African American emancipated by Lincoln finds that freedom is not as available as he expected in the West.

The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the border raids of the early 1900s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the...

"The Fourth Horseman" is the story of Frank Rachel, who ventures down the Mogollon Rim into Peaceful Basin. A fugitive from range wars, Frank wants a place where he can start a ranch and live a life without guns. But Libby Fewkes and Garth Graden change all that. "Santa Fe Passage" inspired a motion picture after its appearance in Esquire Magazine. Kirby Randolph is a mountain man who comes to St. Louis in search of a wife. After an encounter...

"The Legend of Little Dried River" is the story of Preacher Nehemiah Bleek, a giant bear of a man who is the founder of the Horse Creek Mission School to shelter Indian children orphaned by the Indian wars raging in Colorado Territory. In 1864 the great Cheyenne warrior, Roman Nose, brings his nephew, Red Dust, to Preacher Bleek for safe-keeping. What neither Preacher nor Roman Nose realize is that Colonel John M. Chivington, commanding the cavalry...

The best secret agent the South had was L. L. Henderson. She was also a beautiful woman and a counterspy for the Union army. Her men were dangerous hardcases: hired guns, drunks, drifters, a murderous freed slave and the sweet-talker who was her lover. They set out to win the Civil War by sealing off California and her gold. But they hadn't reckoned with Mangas Coloradas, "Red Sleeves," the Apache chieftain. When his warriors sprung their ambush trap,...