Brothers Jeffrey and Todd Barfield, having been separated seven years earlier when their parents were killed by Comanche Indians, are reunited during the Civil War, however they are on different sides of the battle.

The Civil War has ended, and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child he was a captive of the Comanche; as a young man he proudly protected settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with his companion's: young Andy Pickard, himself recently rescued from Comanche captivity. But Texas is in turmoil, overrun with murderous outlaws, vengeful lawman, night riders...

Two youthful Texas Rangers, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, battle heat, thirst, bandits, Indians, and the Mexican Army in an expedition to New Mexico during the early days of the Texas Republic.

Young Jean-Guy, living in a school for boys in France, dreams of Indians and far-off lands. When he murders his fencing teacher in an act of revenge, he flees for his life and boards a Clipper ship bound for America. Finally arriving on the new land, he encounters the colorful visions of his dreams and begins a transformation into a mythical western hero.

"In this powerful new series, a Confederate veteran heads west to start a new life-and gets caught in the middle of a new kind of war . . . WAR VALLEY Hank Gannon grew up on a Florida plantation. He fought alongside his brothers-in-arms in the Civil War. Then he joined the Texas Special Police to help build a more peaceful union-and a future for his beloved Constance. That was the plan. But when a prisoner dies in his custody, Gannon is forced to...

For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...

"When a band of merciless, murdering thieves raise hell across the territory, three men committed to justice descend upon them like angels of death. And when the guns fall silent and the smoke clears, the Jackals are always the last men standing. Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger...

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...

William Lee Braden was no Secessionist, no slave owner. In fact, when the polls opened in Jacksboro, Texas on February 23, 1861, Braden rode twelve miles up Lost Creek from his small ranch not only to vote against Secession, but on his ballot, right next to his signature, he wrote "For the Union forever." But come the fall of 1861, William Lee Braden rode off to join his brother Jacob in Harrisburg to fight, not for the Confederacy, but rather to...

THEY FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM THE WOLF Gray Horse. The magnificent young Comanche warrior made strong by the medicine of the wolf, skilled at stealing horses and counting coup in the war raids of his people. Through his bravery and his wisdom, he would rally his beleaguered tribe against the tide of white settlers that swept over their land. THE BUFFALO Gideon Ledbetter. The ex-slave who was recruited by the white man's army to join the regiment of the...