As Captain L. J. Bohanin heads for California to enjoy his retirement from the 10th Cavalry he becomes immersed in a mystery involving a beautiful and complex school teacher in Springfield, Colorado. Bohanin, a romantic at heart, decides to champion the woman's cause only to find that the deeper he becomes involved, the more complex and dangerous are his circumstances. The old saying goes, "There's no fool like an old fool," and Bohanin soon realizes how much he fits the profile. Bohanin's Last Days is not the typical shoot-em-up, even with a large quota of bad guys, blazing guns, and Old West adventure. If you like westerns and want a good read just for fun, Bohanin's Last Days is the ticket.

Step back into the exciting and humorous American West with several selected short stories and the novella, Sunday’s Colt from award winning Old West fiction and outdoor writer Randy D. Smith. Read fictional accounts of the death of the notorious man burner of the plains, Print Olive, and the first documented journey of the Santa Fe Trade in 1823.

Heroes of the Santa Fe Trail, illustrated and with a bibliography, is the product of decades of primary research by a writer who has lived all of his life in the shadow the Trail’s legacy. This book tells the dramatic story of the men and women—Hispanic, Anglo, and Native American—who settled the West and provides insights not commonly found elsewhere. From the Hispanic Jaramillo and Chavez families of the Rio Grande Valley to the legacy of Ham Bell, a nonviolent man who made more arrests than any Dodge City lawman, Heroes relates the violent, comic, and often tragic adventures of the pioneers of the early Santa Fe Trail.

An Old West adventure set in the rugged Palo Duro Canyon of Texas, The Red River Ring is the story of Pommel McMurphy, a successful pioneer rancher, Confederate soldier and trail boss. McMurphy returns to Palo Duro after being summoned by his former wife and mother of his three sons to help face a determined assault by the Red River Ring, a band of rustlers and land grabbers. Twenty years before, McMurphy left his wife and sons without a word. He returns to grown sons who have no idea that he lives and the woman he left behind. He must also battle Black Tom Bent, leader of the Ring and his long-time foe, for the land, the woman and the respect of his sons. Secrets and guilt torment him as he struggles to save his family and come to terms with what he has done.An action-packed drama unfolds as McMurphy uses old-time vigilantism and the code of the vendetta to overcome a dangerous foe in a time when the law of the gun is being quickly overshadowed by the rule of law.

Fort Larned is the first of three historical novels depicting the life of fictional adventurer, Lane Collier.From his beginnings as a Civil War army scout and later as a celebrated buffalo hunter, lawman, and rancher Lane Collier symbolizes the tenacity and resourcefulness of the North American plains frontiersman during the second half of the 19th century. Such men clawed a living and built a civilization from seemingly barren grasslands and hostile prairie where only vast herds of bison and the Indian reigned supreme for centuries.The first narrative of the Lance Collier trilogy, Fort Larned, relates an account of the post-Civil War Indian wars on the Kansas leg of the Santa Fe Trail. Collier, a white man with Indian blood, struggles to survive a Cheyenne uprising tainted by intolerance, government bungling and warfare defined by merciless revenge. Meet such characters as: Nell Baker, a woman stranded by the massacre of her husband and friends...