Fort Sarpy tells the story of the American Fur Company's most dangerous post. The fort was built on the Yellowstone River in 1850 for the trade with the Crow. At this time, the tribe was located in a triangle between the Tongue and the Bighorn River, with its northern boundary the Musselshell River. In 1850, the Crow were a small tribe, at one time combined with the Gros Ventre before they split off in the 1700's. They'd been hit hard by the smallpox epidemic in the 1830's. Because of strong and numerous enemies - the Sioux, the Cheyenne and the Arapahoe - the Crow had not had general access...
Fort Sarpy tells the story of the American Fur Company's most dangerous post. The fort was built on the Yellowstone River in 1850 for the trade with t...
Book Two of Lloyd's Riverboat Trilogy . . . This novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone book or read as part of the series. Caleb Shaw comes out of the mountains and becomes a riverboat man, working the steamboats of the Missouri and the Mississippi. It tells the story of Lucian Lambeau, his fat French sidekick, Bulgann, and Storm, the little Indian girl rescued from the swift current. The shanty Irish of St. Louis are depicted, with their bitter gang rivalries. UPRIVER also introduces the reader to Harvey Allen, the pilot apprentice to Anson LaFarge, the captain of the Western Star, the...
Book Two of Lloyd's Riverboat Trilogy . . . This novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone book or read as part of the series. Caleb Shaw comes out of the...
Book Three of Lloyd's Riverboat Trilogy This novel of the dangerous Missouri River can be enjoyed as a stand alone novel. For readers who enjoyed Book One and Book Two of Lloyd's trilogy, The Captains completes the riverboat series as Caleb, Harvey and Storm, the Indian woman rescued form the river, experience the rigors of the Civil War and its aftermath. Together, the two men take on river pirates, Indians and Confederate Guerillas, while Storm seeks to return to her heritage, the Indian life in the Rocky Mountains. Fort Benton becomes the head of navigation on the Missouri River, "the...
Book Three of Lloyd's Riverboat Trilogy This novel of the dangerous Missouri River can be enjoyed as a stand alone novel. For readers who enjoyed Book...
Two confederates meet on the battlefield and become friends during the Civil War. After the conflict is over, the men go west to make a new start. War-weary and restless, they find it hard to settle down. Their journey takes them to Texas where they find work as rangers, then to Kansas, hunting buffalo, and finally to Montana, to see and experience the gold camps there.
Two confederates meet on the battlefield and become friends during the Civil War. After the conflict is over, the men go west to make a new start. War...
After Ben's death at the hands of the Danites, his family and old partners are bent on revenge and with the help of their Crows, follow the trail of the murderers into the Mormon stronghold. There, the old Mormon assassin, Porter Rockwell, and his henchmen are brought to bay and frontier justice is served out. Then the family goes their own way, with Freddy becoming a Wells Fargo detective, Betty struggling with raising her family, Kills Twice going back to his tribe and Katy continuing to work toward her dream of becoming a doctor. But the Mormon tyrant, Brigham Young, has his own vendetta...
After Ben's death at the hands of the Danites, his family and old partners are bent on revenge and with the help of their Crows, follow the trail of t...
