"Three times, Adam Bain and his twin sister, Eve, escape capture by attacking Indians; once by Adam and his brother, Noah, jumping off a hundred-foot-high bluff into the Llano River. But the day comes when their luck runs out, and Adam and Eve are captured by Mescalero Apaches. Because of Adam's flaming red hair, the Indians name him Rojo Pelo. Eve is named Castaño Rojizo because of her auburn hair. They are carried to the Guadalupe Mountains of...

"The Civil War back East wasn't much of Adam Sanchez's business, but he fought to preserve the Union. After the end of hostilities, and disillusioned by bigoted treatment because of his Comanchero heritage, Sanchez returns west and teams up with fellow veteran Nelson Cook, now the sheriff of Luther, Wyoming. Cook deputizes his friend to get out of a jam. Shortly afterwards, Deputy Sanchez and Sheriff Cook find themselves on both sides of the law when...

"Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is feeling flush, especially after a lucky streak at the poker table. But his good fortune earns him a dangerous enemy, notorious tinhorn gambler Hannibal Fisher. Coe starts the long ride back to Texas with big plans to buy his own ranch. All he needs now is a wife. In tiny Prairie Fire, Kansas, he meets the perfect woman, his childhood love Josette Dubois. But she is under the thumb of her...

"In Omaha, Tom Calvert boards a riverboat to play high-stakes poker, but accusations of cheating cause some serious trouble, and a deadly gun battle ensues. Tom is injured and knows that his enemies will be looking for him, so he reluctantly accepts a bargain from young stowaway Asher. In exchange for Calvert teaching him gunslinging skills, Asher will guide them to a possibly mythical town of peace and plenty called Friendly Field. To get there,...

"When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood--and...

"On a lonely road in a remote desert stands a roadhouse. Formerly a home station on a now abandoned stagecoach route, it is the only source of water and supplies for miles. Accommodations are crude adearnd coarse, the hospitality rough and raw, the proprietor boorish and vulgar. Travelers are few and far between, and almost all must stop for water-which comes at a price. A mounted mail carrier who visits the roadhouse with some regularity suspects...

"'Oh my Lawd, look at dem chargin' down dat hill, dey's thousands of 'em,' someone exclaimed. The man moved as if to run away. 'Where you gonna run to, seein' dey's got us in a circle?' Sad Sack asked. 'Best thing we can do is see dat dey don't git da rest o' dese horses, so we can git away.' 'Settle down, men, and don't waste ammunition, wait until they are in range, then aim,' Lieutenant Ashley called. Two hundred or more Indians were charging the...

"Changing Flags" is the true story of John Riley, a cocky Irish professional soldier who deserts the U.S. Army to fight for Mexico at first for money, then for something loftier in the Mexican War of 1846-48. With gritty action, romance, and humor, it brings to life his torturous journey of reformation and that of rowdy Irish and German fellow deserters who follow him in pursuit of a shared dream. Their epic tale begins in Michigan when Riley launches...

"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hagers fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in whats left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend--the...

"Bounty hunter Elias Prosper is as tough a man as the West has produced. But as hard as he is, he has a soft spot for children and women. When a Ute named Painted Bear casts off the ways of the white man and spirits away a Ute boy and a white woman, both of whom Prosper had rescued earlier, the bounty hunter ignores his wife's pleas to stay home and instead heads into the mountains to hunt down the renegade warrior"--