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"In 'Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army' a seasoned sergeant tries to turn undisciplined recruits into true soldiers despite his commanding officer's indifference, but things change when Major King learns his daughter's stagecoach will likely be attacked by Indians. 'Furnace Flat' tells of Grady Ryan's attempt to get rich mining borax in Death Valley"--
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"Searching for a missing man in the Arizona territories was a job Henry Logan was eager to take. His lungs, damaged from malaria during the Spanish-American War, could use a rest. But when the people of Nogales got the mistaken impression that he was a gunman instead of a gunsmith, Logan suddenly found himself the target of jeers -- and bullets. All of which made it harder to uncover the truth about the missing Rip Parrish, especially when the evidence...
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"Two short western novels: 'Trouble at Temescal' tells the story of two entrepreneurial mustangers in Los Angeles after the Mexican-American War and 'King of the Defiances' involves a greedy rancher in Arizona who is trying to make a fortune in logging through devious means and the man determined to stop him" --Provided by publisher.
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Ruel Starrett, from the Red River region of Texas, purchases a half interest in the great Spade Ranch from Susana Dahlhart. This will give him a chance to carry forth his experiment to cross Brahma bulls with longhorn range cattle. But there is the problem of Zack Markley, the Spade foreman, who Ruel Starrett wants to fire, but who claims ownership of the Mission Creek section of the ranch and who will fight for possession of it.
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"When Sam Cary and his bullwhackers set out on the Bozeman Trail for Fort Greybull, they knew they were riding into danger. Sam's arch-rival Mark Stockwell had been running guns to the Indians, a hot-blooded young warchief was stirring up the tribes and the cavalry had already pulled out. But Sam was a fighter with a lot at stake - including a gray-eyed beauty named Gaybird. Besides, it was already too late to turn back..."--WorldCat.
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"Brand of the Bear Flag Mutineers" chronicles a bitter and bloody confrontation between U.S. soldiers and Secessionist troops in California's rugged San Bernardino Mountains during the Civil War. In "The Dark Border," a pair of adventurous cowmen wins a hardscrabble ranch in a dice game in the south Texas badlands. Their subsequent involvement with a man involved in the illegal running of cattle across the Mexican border leads to hard lessons learned...
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