During the hard times following the Civil War a man some times must travel like a tumbleweed to survive. Jake Hightower was just such a man. / (Reviews)
In 1870, Bob Harris buys a mule. He is a bounty hunter, and the mule replaces his horse. This is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek story, so don't take it too seriously. The story was suggested by a great friend of mine until she died, Ada, a mule. The story is short, but I had fun with it. Five chapters.
A story in the Sheriff O'Dell Universe
The dry hot wind blew the rope in a circular motion above my head. Around and around; the branch and leaves and sky in the background. My neck burned and I needed to breathe. I needed to use my hands. They wouldn’t move. I needed to breathe. I'd been lynched.
Madeline, unable to stop grieving for her dead husband, boarded a stage coach for the month-long trip to California, where her sister lived. Among the other passengers were two cowboys who seemed to be too friendly with each other. And when a freak accident trapped the young widow with these two men in an old mine, she saw it as her moral duty to heal them of their affliction. The only problem was... they weren't afflicted.
A story in the Time Twitch Universe
A versus life story with no great evil to face just life in a hard place during a hard time. Our hero gets catapulted back in time. Don't expect explosions, blood and orgasms at every page turn. Bad words and uncomfortable topics are addressed in this story, not for every reader.
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.
A story in the Sheriff O'Dell Universe
The Sugars try to take the feud to another branch of the O'Dell family. They find that the O'Dell women can be ruthless when done wrong.
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?
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...