In September 1873 they hit him over the head, knocking him senseless. They hit him from behind while he was standing in a saloon in San Francisco celebrating his fortieth birthday. John Jacob Hannon isn't a patient man, isn't forgiving, and doesn't take kindly to being forcibly dragged off to sea. He stood 6' 1" in his stocking feet, and weighed a little over two hundred pounds. Shanghaied three years, Hannon's first priority is ending his life on board, and the lives of his captors. His second is retrieving his horse and the gear he left at a small cafe in Chinatown and leaving town. What he...

SHORT STORIES OUT OF KANE is an assortment of true accounts of life in Kane, Wyoming during its brief seventy year existence. They are stories of hope, youth, and independence as well as hard work, endurance, and pathos. The people depicted herein often had little or nothing, yet they sustained themselves and family through sheer determination to survive. Their stories deserve telling.

Eleven pregnant mares are missing. They are the property of seventeen-year-old Alejendra Rodriguez--Alex for short. Alex's grandmother sends her to Henry, the oldest and the best tracker in the territory. His reputation for tracking is unsurpassed. It is 1915 and Henry, sitting on the porch of the Neeley Hotel, has seen better days. His reluctance to help her, born of age and worn-out body parts, is overcome by an ancient promise he must keep, a remnant of the past. What the young girl, and the old man uncover is much more than missing horses. They discover a man driven by his obsession for...

In 1854 three girls are lost in tens of thousands of square miles in someone else's land, a land where the Teton Lakota, the Brule, the Oglala, the Hunkapapa, the Absaroka, and the Arapaho have lived forever. No one knows they are missing. They are followed by an eighteen year old kid, alone, who, if not dead himself, certainly under any circumstances is not prepared to track them through an inhospitable, unforgiving land where "the only good white man is a dead one." Three teenaged girls are forced to live among a "civilized" people where hanging the scalps of their enemies from the lodge...