Michael Zimmer

"I'll tell you something else about those cowboy pictures. They're clean, barely a smudge of dirt anywhere, but what happened out there in City of Rocks wasn't clean. It was grimy and smelly and gut-numbingly cold. Men died . . . They got knocked down hard and the life spilled out of them like blood from a butchered hog. I guess I ought to know since I was there. Since it was me who did most of the killing that day." -- Joseph Roper, Federal Writers...

"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...

Fandango is the gripping, beautiful, and vividly realistic saga of men who gave their blood and tears to a country as wild as their souls. From the red-tinged Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the snows of the Great Salt Lake, they plunged into a pristine wilderness, pursuing a rich man's vendetta and a missing trove of beaver pelts. Among the high, harsh peaks and embracing valleys they would fight, hunt, and die.

Tom Slade is riding shotgun for a Colorado and Prescott Stagecoach Company delivery of mine payrolls in Arizona when the stage is robbed. With no time to get help, Slade sets off in pursuit on a worn-out harness mule. But he hadn't counted on a woman showing up in the desert with her own reason for tracking down the outlaws, or her mysterious friend, Charlie Red.

Trying to leave the Redhawk Mining District in Montana before the harsh winter sets in, miners with a large cache of gold turn to Johnny Montana to protect them from a highly-organized gang of murderous outlaws.

In 1874 Utah territory, young teamster Buck McCready becomes wagon boss for the Kavanaugh freight outfit after his mentor, old Mason Campbell, is murdered. With the Kavanaugh outfit engaged in a wagon train race that will decide whether Kavanaugh or a competitor lands a lucrative freight-hauling contract, Buck vows to find Campbell's killer. But first he must win the race, a difficult task considering there's a saboteur among his crew and a hired...

Gil Ryan rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. He had no way of knowing the surrounding Ensillado Basin was about to be plunged into a range war, or that the man who murdered his brother the previous fall was there. Forced into a war he doesn't want, Gil assembles a ragtag army of reluctant townspeople and local homesteaders and sets out to bring order to the town of Larkspur. But there's more...

It's the early days of the Mexican revolution. J. T. Latham is about to be killed by a Yuma Prison gang when an old nemesis, Deputy Del Buchman, intervenes. Latham will get a pardon if he uses his knowledge of the area and his experience with the Yaqui to guide Buchman's posse deep into the Sonoran desert to rescue rich man's kidnapped wife and children. The guerrilla general responsible wants machine guns for their safe return, but there is more...

Buffalo trace: Hallie Mae Edson and her brother, Tom, join the newly formed Indiana Territorial Rangers. When another Ranger disappears, Hallie comes face to face with danger in a way she has never faced before. She not only has to save the Ranger, but herself, with skills, will, and courage she didn't know she had. Two old Comanches: Imprisoned in a dark, damp and inhospitable Army post in St. Augustine, Florida, an aging Comanche warrior and his...