The first in a trilogy set in the untamed colonial American wilderness, from "a keen observer of the human heart as well as a fine action writer" ( Publishers Weekly).Joshua Colter was born of the wild frontier. As a young boy living with his family on the edges of civilization during the French and Indian War, he witnessed firsthand the bloodshed and brutality men were capable of—from the deception and depredations of whites like his own vile father to th...

Finalist for the Spur Award: The thrilling adventures of an American icon come alive in this vivid and authentic retelling of his remarkable storyFrom humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David "Davy" Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were—to his delight—told, retold, and elaborated ...

A sweeping epic of the American frontier and the brave few who risked their lives for the promise of glory and limitless fortunesFor Americans in the early nineteenth century, the uncharted western frontier signified both great opportunity and grave danger. Bold pioneers left the civilized Eastern Seaboard in droves, seeking riches and reinvention. Trekking across the continent's vast plains and rivers, they faced the threat of disease, wild animals, and violence fr...

The second volume in The Tennessee Frontier Trilogy, The Border Men is an adventure saga set in the period from 1778 to 1783. The battle at King's Mountain is the prominent historical context of the novel.

The author of The Overmountain Men and The Canebrake Men continues his Tennessee Frontier Trilogy as the American Revolution rages in the wilderness.Two years after the colonies declare their independence, the American and British armies fight a seemingly endless series of bloody battles in the east. But on the Tennessee frontier, the war is fought by far fewer rules of engagement. In the wilderness, those who strike silent and swift win the day, e...

Finalist for the Spur Award: The author of The Overmountain Men and The Border Men concludes his epic adventure of Tennessee's early history.The United States of America has just been born from the fires of revolution. But in the wilds of Tennessee in the Southwest Territory, a fire still burns—especially in the heart of fifteen-year-old Owen Killefer.For Owen witnessed the massacre of his family by Tom Turndale—a depraved marauder who des...

Western reporter Brady Kenton has made his living with the power of his pen--capturing the conflict and the courage of the American frontier. But there's one story that has always eluded Kenton: the truth behind his wife's purported death in a fiery train crash. Victoria Kenton's body was never found. Now, a nervous young Englishwoman has shown up in Leadville, telling Kenton's sidekick, Alex Gunnison, that she is the reporter's long-lost daughter--and that she knows Victoria's fate. But b...

From the two-time Spur Award finalist, a novel of one restless man's dangerous journey through the early American frontier . . .His name was Bushrod Underhill, a son of the Cumberland mountains, inheritor of a pioneer spirit and a restless soul. Raised by a French-born Indian trader among the Cherokees and Creeks, Bushrod left the dark mountains of the American Southeast for the promise of an open frontier.But in the era of the Natchez Trace and Louisiana Pur...

He was looking for a woman. What he found was gold, greed...and murder.Enoch Brand never met a fight he couldn't resist. His wife Minnie had the same problem with men. Then Minnie finally ran off from Enoch, while the two were headed home to Tennessee. Now Enoch has gone charging after her-running straight into a gun battle, a one-handed ex Confederate soldier, and a storm of lies, betrayal and greed that all comes down to one thing: a treasure of gold that may or may not exist. Som...

From the award-winning author with over one million of his books in print, a cowboy goes in search of an outlaw on the western frontier in this historical adventure.Young Luke McCan came to the gold-rich Black Hills of Dakota seeking his fortune. What he found was Deadwood, a whiskey-soaked, blood-drenched town where trouble was never further away from the next poker game—the kind of trouble that might well have killed him if a stranger hadn't put a bullet in a man...

Compared to such Western giants as Max Brand, Luke Short, and Louis L'Amour, he has been called the New Voice of the Old West. With over one million of his books in print, Cameron Judd powerfully brings to life, as no one else can, the struggles of a generation of Americans on harsh and beautiful frontier.He was young and green when he rode out from his family's Wyoming ranch, a boy sent to bring his wayward brother home to a dying father. Now, Tucker Corrigan was entering a range w...

He brings the Old West to vivid new life in his action-packed stories of heroism, adventure, and excitement. With over one million of his books in print, Cameron Judd powerfully depicts, as no other writer can, the struggles of a generation of Americans on a harsh and beautiful frontier.Jed Keller came to Texas to repay a debt to his sister, killed in a fire at her ranch. But from his first day in the godforsaken little town of Cade, Jed faced mystery surrounding his sister's death,...