Michael Zimmer

Idaho, 1879. When the McCandles gang shoots up a small town, seventeen-year-old Joseph Roper decides to bring them to justice, alone. Decades later in 1938, he tells his story to an interviewer with the Federal Writers Project.

He is known as Johnny Montana. It is the name given to him by his fellow miners in the Redhawk mining district. Those working have been able to accumulate sizable caches of gold dust. The problem for the miners is how to get their gold out of the district. Brett Cutter and his gang of Cut-throats watch the roads and byways for miners trying to leave. Vacating miners are attacked and usually left dead after having been stripped of their gold. It is...

"In 1904, sixteen-year-old Billy Pinto watches as the three men accused of murdering his Shoshone mother are set free, simply because the judge and prosecuting attorney don't believe they can successfully try white men for the killing of an Indian. Stunned by the court's decision, Billy decides to take justice into his own hands. He ambushes the three killers outside of town, then kidnaps the judge's granddaughter before fleeing into the remote San...

"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...

Half-frozen and nearly dead, Gil Ryan rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. He'd lost everything he owned except for his mount and the clothes on his back when his pack horse fell through the ice on the Big Sandy River. Racked with fever, early-stage pneumonia, and a barely healed gunshot wound, all he wanted was a little medicine and a warm place to wait out the storm. But Gil had no way of knowing...

""The Buffalo Trace" by Larry D. Sweazy. Hallie Mae Edson and her brother, Tom, join the newly formed Indiana Territorial Rangers. When another Ranger disappears, Hallie comes face to face with danger in a way she has never faced before. She not only has to save the Ranger, but herself, with skills, will, and courage she didn't know she had. "Two Old Comanches" by Johnny D. Boggs Imprisoned in a dark, damp and inhospitable Army post in St. Augustine,...