Frank Carlson Library

"It is 1865. Jesse Wilder has survived the horrors of Shiloh, the hell of a Yankee prison camp, and the shame of volunteering for the Union army of the West - the only way to escape certain death in the camp. Now the war is over and he has come home to Tennessee. But the word of his "treachery" has preceded him and Jesse finds himself shunned by his neighbors, and worse, disinherited by his late father. Like so many disillusioned survivors of the...

Dishonorably dismissed from the Army, Scott Dunham sets out to prospect and hunt in New Mexico. There, he meets frontierwoman Holly Warren - but can the two make a future together?

"In a sudden ambush in a deserted valley, Walt Durand's horse is shot out from under him, and he's drawn into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse against four men who want nothing more than to kill him in cold blood"--

While trying to find new challengers for the horse he had won in a poker game, Dude McQueen and his sidekicks--Coyote Walking, the Eastern-educated Comanche jockey, and Uncle Billy, the talented horse doctor and trainer--come across dangerous information about their horse's bloodlines.

"There were few horse breeders in the West to equal Lee Banner: the man was a born horseman who took any job he could find to keep his small Oklahoma spread going and to help him fulfill his lifelong dream of seeing one of his two-year-olds in the All-American Winners Circle. A few years back Banner was certain he had a winner in Land Rush; then in mid-season the black stallion went down in a three-horse tangle on a muddy track. It had been a costly,...

"After Victorio's death, the Southwest had simmered down. Without their chief, the Warm Springs Apaches abandoned the murderous campaign against the blancos and the Mexicans who had invaded their tribal lands, and serenity had returned to the arid territory. But bitter memories lingered. Lieutenant Ewing Mackay was glad of the respite. During his seven-year tour of duty in Arizona Territory he had come to love the desert's austere beauty, the stark...

Jesse Alden Wilder is a "galvanized" Yankee: a Confederate prisoner who accepted an offer to fight Indians rather than remain in prison. After the war, he has adventures rescuing Apache captives in Arizona and fighting night riders in Tennessee.