A The Walker Colt Story (1) The Walker Colt was a beautiful weapon. It has a history that has fused itself into the very fabric of the pistol. Bob is asked to restore the pistol, and Billy Pruitt was the first man to own it. This is their tale.
The situation between Deputy Brock Guthrie and Daphne Decker is complicated. Can he get past his hatred of Indians and accept Daphne for the woman she is within instead of seeing only her Comanche heritage? Will he take a chance and come down from the fence he sits on, or will he turn away from the possibility of a lifetime of happiness with Daphne?
Eva Van der Heiden knows she will never find a man to love her. Her days are spent caring for her siblings and enjoying spinsterhood until her aunt matches her with a man under false pretenses. Luc de Jeu marries Eva thinking she will provide him with an heir when in fact, she thinks their union is a marriage of convenience. Can their marriage last when they both have different expectations?
Join Jed Adams on his trek from a miserable farm in New England to San Francisco. He was a veteran of the Union Army and well able to take care of himself in a firefight. This is the story of how Jed became a rich family man with a successful business built on his Army experience. This is how Jed was instrumental in making California a safe place for the common businessman. The people of San Francisco owed a lot to him. 8 chapters.
The real story of Orville Summinski begins in the California gold fields, but does not stay there for long. His family moves to Los Angeles and he winds up in the Mexican beer business. Through a mixture of luck and skill, he gains the support of his Mexican employer, marries a Mexican heiress, and becomes a Mexican hidalgo. How's that for a boy born in the slums of New York City? 8 Chapters.
Prince Albert (his mother had a sense of humor) was born in Texas at the time of the War and the Comanche wars. His grandfather taught him to play poker so well that he was a rich man by the time he was an adult. He played poker on ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean and wiped out a gang of pirates in the Mediterranean Sea. That led to being hired to protect shipping from pirates off the coast of China. He was so successful that he wound up owning 10% of a shipping company. 20 chapters.
Bill Haskell, a Deputy US Marshal, starts out to find some children kidnapped by a band of Navajos, and winds up finding a wife. He has a dog that is very adept in fighting Indians and acquires a bitch with pups that joins the group. Eventually, he is forced to give up on the missing children and returns to being a regular federal marshal working in Arizona Territory. 7 chapters.
Alan missed being killed along with his family by minutes. At nine there was nothing he could do about it. He ran. When offered a place to stay on a farm out west he stuck around. He matured and came to love the life. The life he led was shaped by old Gert, the woman that gave him a place to stay.
A single man my age, never knows when his next life changing event will come along. Sometimes it's on a man before his brain can get a handle on it. This is a modern day western about a man who meets a woman 10 years younger...
