Historical Stories

Fourteen-year-old Jamie serves at table in Murphy’s Roadhouse outside Harper’s Ferry downstairs and services men upstairs. It’s not until Abe, a former circus acrobat, goes upstairs with him that Jamie learns the full pleasure of what can be done with a man.

This is the first of 2 stories about young men who become farmers. the 1st is a soldier then a roustabout finally a farmer.

A Sacramento Marshal Story
This is the story of Jasper Samuelson's last wagon train from Independence, MO, headed for Sacramento, CA. It relates 6 months of almost nothing but trouble from outlaws, Indians, and the weather. Not everybody finishes the trip!

A Thank You Note Story
This is another of my "Thank You" notes

Clint Roberts was looking for something. He was tired of fighting and tired of this damn war. He wanted to get away and disappear someplace. When he came across a small town he stopped for a drink and a bath. It would turn out to be just what he'd been searching for!

An encounter with a highwayman doesn't go quite the way you might expect. Of course.

In a world where magic and industry collide, a reborn man finds a mysterious Black Stone glowing with forbidden golden light. Armed with modern knowledge, he turns coins into weapons, laundromats into empires, and federal agents into pawns. He doesn’t want to rule the world. He wants the world to need him. The only sin is playing small.

Ben and his sister are running from the law after robbing a bank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They go west by train to Kansas City, Kansas where their money runs out. They start walking, sleeping under bridges as they travel slowly toward Wichita. A fancy carriage stops next to them and the man driving asked them if they would drive for him. They end up taking the man’s name and pretend to be man and wife. Ben now Henry, becomes a well to do lawyer in Lawrence, Kansas. Read to find out how!