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Cole Younger, one of the most famous Western outlaws, tell his own story, warts and all, in this novel of retribution and redemption.

Between the Pecos River and Rio Grande a vast, harsh land was ruled by Texas Rangers Captain Hector Savage. Savage's motive wasn't duty, it was money; he's turned this desolate place into a bloodied, terrorized kingdom. Now, a protege of Savage, Sergeant Dave Chance, has come with a prisoner--a big-talking murderer in his own right--shackled at his side. A decent, honest Ranger, Chance cannot stand idly by while Savage runs roughshod over the territory....

His arrows Fly Straight into the Hearts of His Enemies was the Comanche name given him when Daniel Killstraight was young. The name change came after he was sent to Carlisle Industrial School, where he joined other frightened Indian youths--Lakotas, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Pawnees. After his return to the reservation, Killstraight became a native police officer, called a Metal Shirt. Now Killstraight and another young Comanche, Charles Flint, are...

Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. The hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, he had defeated Santa Anna to win independence for Texas back in 1836. He had twice served as president of the Republic of Texas, helped Texas join the Union, and served as senator and governor of Texas. Before settling in Texas, he had been a hero of the Creek War and governor of Tennessee. He had been friends with Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett, and had been adopted...

It was referred to in the national press and by historians as the Battle at the Little Bighorn or the Custer Massacre. The Indians involved in the conflict termed it in their unwritten languages the Greasy Grass Fight. What actually happened in that battle seems chaos and confusion. Custer was an idiot. He was a hero. He did everything right (just everything went wrong). He did everything wrong (and nothing went right). There were fifteen hundred...

Sixteen-year-old orphan Tyrell Breen leaves South Carolina and heads west, hoping to make it to his uncle's ranch near San Antonio, Texas. It's 1874, and Ty means to become a cowboy -- although his idea of what that entails comes from half-dime novels. On the way, Ty is robbed of his money and his horse by a gambler named Rip Ford, and arrives at his uncle's ranch a sorry sight ... but not as sorry as his uncle, who has been neglecting everything...

There are a lot of stories about how Soldier's Farewell got its name. The one favored by Wallace Conner Munro, who operates the stage relay station there for the Butterfield Stage Line, was that one time a troop of soldiers from Fort Bliss got ambushed on that spot by Apaches, and they got beaten so badly that they all skedaddled back for Texas. The Apaches laughed and started waving to the soldiers as they ran. So, according to Conner Munro, it...

The only way to escape the purgatory of the Florence Stockade was to die. So on February 3, 1865 Zebulon Hogan died and was buried in the prisoners' cemetery. It was young Ebenezer Chase, a runaway slave who saw his hand clawing out of the dirt over the shallow grave. Zeb has a mission far beyond escape: he's sworn an oath to the other prisoners to hunt and kill a traitorous sergeant. Zeb's problem is that he knows nothing of the surrounding country....

Micah Bishop doesn't believe in miracles--until a derringer-packing nun busts him out of jail. But it's not Christian charity that's driving Sister Geneviéve--she wants Micah to take her to a place called the Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. It was here where an order of nuns met their Maker, and it's Sister Geneviève's mission to see that they are given a proper funeral. Micah's not in the habit...

Stranded in the Mojave Desert, Micah Bishop is about to cash in his chips for good when he's rescued by an unlikely savior. Whip Watson is hand-delivering two dozen brides to the silver boom town of Calico, where miners are going loco for companionship. Better still, Watson asks Micah if he'd help escort the wagons --and far be it for Micah to pass up both cash and some very pretty faces. But Micah doesn't know that Whip Watson has some killer competition....