Two stories of the old west. Maclin Valley. The lure of gold was drawing many to the mountains of Colorado but when Silas Maclin rode into the valley he knew he had found his gold. The tall grass waved through the valley from side to side and once he saw it he could go no further. Now it ws up to his estranged some Moses to save the beloved valley even if it meant crossing the line of the law. It was the love of a beautiful girl and her daughter who turned him around and made him whole aga...

In the first story, Adam Keller was born a rancher, but heavy combat in Afghanistan took him away from that and when he had a chance to regain some of the same satisfaction he had on the ranch, he grabbed it…no matter the cost. Beginning a relationship with a lie was usually a recipe for disaster and for him it was like fighting out of a dark hole.The second story is about a wounded vet trying to recover his memory of the day, he carried a letter from one of his comrades. It was th...

Sunset McGuire was a man of peace. During his time scouting for the army, he always looked for a peaceful resolution with the Apache the army considered the enemy. The first time Major Innis's daughter Heather saw him, she fell in love. It was two long years before they were married and moved to the ranch, but now she and their son were dead, and Sonny swore over their bodies that he would get the men who did it.For Sonny, reading the tracks of men was easy, and he and his brother ...

Life on a white boy being raised by Comanches was hard enough, but now that boy is a young man who is being introduced to the white way of life. All the strange customs were hard enough to understand and learn, but he must also fight the prejudice and hatred of his own people. It one man and a woman who loves him that see him through.In the harsh environment in a Comanche village for a boy called 'White Boy Who Rides Like the Wind', but for the man called Mackenzie, it was a challe...

The murder of Ian MacGregor had started a chain of events that his son couldn't stop. Cullen had left the area for good, or so he thought, but he was determined to find the person who killed his father. It was a perfect cover story for the second reason for his trip back to a lot of memories.Someone was printing money and distributing it across the country, and although the clues were vague, it required the Secret Service to investigate. It was an ideal out of the way place where t...

William Crittenden was the son of a general who ran his family like he did his soldiers and for that reason, Will developed a dislike for anything military. However, the excitement of fighting for his country swept him up, and he entered the war under his mother's maiden name.The war changed his thinking about the military, and when it was over, he decided to stay in the army…and that meant a transfer to the Arizona Territory and an introduction to the Apache Wars.It was a ne...

Texas was an ideal place to raise cattle, but the war years left that industry in shambles, and the McClellan ranch was among the ranches that fell under the financial pressure it caused. The McClellan brothers never gave up hope of owning their own ranch again, and it was Rufus who made a bold move to fulfill that dream.The fear of living just below the Caprock was a constant threat. Above them was the home of the Comanche people who rivaled any mounted army in the world and fierce...

The guns of Colorado – The Mosby family headed west to Oregon, like so many others, but were smooth talker convinced them and two other families to leave the train and head for the gold fields of Colorado. When Jacob Mosby first saw the valley, he knew he was a man of the land by heart and thoughts of digging for gold left his mind.Miracle Valley became the home for the Mosby 'Rocking M' ranch where they found that life on a ranch in Colorado was good, but it was a full-time job bui...

Ride with the Thunder: Claudius Stoner founded the Stoner Ranch a hundred years before Del Stoner took over and keeping that ranch going for generations was not an easy thing. There were the Blackfoot Indians attacking any white man who set foot on their land as well as wars and depressions, but through the years the Stoners held fast and now it was up to Del Stoner to carry on. He had the love of his daughter Lizzy, his grandmother, Grannie Stoner, and a horse named Thunder, then he found...

Jeb Alexander was from the mountains and, like most hill folk, he could shoot and ride like the wind. He was only down from his beloved Cheat Mountain for three days when he landed in the army in the middle of a war. He was a thinker, and it was not long before he reached the rank of captain.Under the guidance of General Winchell, he proved his worth many times over as the war ground to an end. He decided to stay in the army and while he was waiting for his after-war posting, he met...

Avenging the death of her father was a spontaneous reaction but it sent her on the run from the Finlay clan who wanted her dead. Alone and running in a world that she knew nothing about left he wondering who she could trust. Belle Starr turned out to be one of those people and perhaps the only one.When Bob Younger swept her off her feet and led her into the life of a wanted outlaw she had no one to turn to. When a robbery went bad even the safety of Belle's was out of the question. ...

Cletus was the first of the Youngblood clan to see the Rocky Mountains and for him, it was love at first sight. Meeting a fur-trapping Mountain Man gave him a reason to stay, and as the market for beaver pelts started to dry up a chance encounter with an Arapahoe Indian changed his life again.His years with the Arapahoe were happy ones, and when his son was born he was even happier. He spent time teaching him the white man's ways while his Arapahoe friend Little Raven saw that he kn...