When Nathaniel Hapgood headed west from Massachusetts in 1873 to stake a homestead claim in the Arizona Territory, he wagered it would take backbreaking labor to carve out a living from a decent-sized spread of land--nothing his Yankee know-how couldn't handle. But his stern New England upbringing hadn't prepared Nathaniel for Don Ignacio Olivera, a proud and powerful Spaniard who flew the Mexican flag over the hacienda and had his own private army...

"A widow must defend herself and her property from the greedy townsfolk of Marysville, Montana"--

"The story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns"--

On deserting from a Royal Navy ship, sailor Barnaby Skye becomes a fur trapper in America. He marries an Indian woman, but she leaves him to become the second wife of an Indian chief. When another tribe abducts her, Skye goes to her rescue.

When newspaperman John Fellowes Hall arrives in Butte, Montana, in 1892, he finds himself deeply embroiled in the fight among the Copper Kings, as they battle for control of the money-making copper mines.

The author provides a solution - dark in its ramifications - to one of the greatest mysteries in American history: the terrible and unexplained death of Meriwether Lewis, age thirty-five, in the wilderness of the Natcez Trace of Tennessee in October 1809.

Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, Rocky Mountain trapper, and frontiersman extraordinaire, brings his Crow Indian wife, Many Quill Woman (whom Skye calls "Victoria"), to the trappers' rendezvous on the Popo Agie River of Wyoming in the summer of 1838. There, he learns that the beaver-trapping business is dying out. When he is offered a chance to become a post trader in Victoria's homeland, he makes the journey to St. Louis to present...

"Throatlatch, Wyoming, is a sinister town that preys on travelers. One of them is No Name, a drifter who lives his life without purpose. Something about the little town obsesses No Name, and he finds himself drawn into a whirl of evil - murders and cruelties all done in the name of virtue. No Name soon discovers that Throatlatch is the home of a cult that wants to bring paradise to earth. Will No Name resist? Or will Utopia kill him, too?"--Provided...

Working as a guide for wealthy Englishman Graves Duplessis Mercer, mountain man Barnaby Skye finds their lives in danger when they visit a Missouri River valley filled with gigantic fossils of ancient monsters, a region sacred to local tribes.

Offended at being labelled a brutal killer, former gunfighter Bat Masterson, now a sportswriter in 1919 New York heads west to repair his reputation. A hopeless task, people want myths, not truth.