The first full-length biography of the Western legend Tom Jeffords, immortalized by Jimmy Stewart in 1950's Broken Arrow. This book tells the true story of a man who headed West drawn by the lure of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858; made a life for himself over a decade as he scouted for the army, prospected, became a business man; then learned the Apache language and rode alone into Cochise's camp in order to negotiate peaceful passage for his stagecoach company. In his search for the real story of Jeffords, Cochise, and the parts they played in mid-nineteenth century American history and...

In the tradition of Louis L'Amour, a love story. A strong, lonely man hiding from enemies while seeking his fortune encounters an inaccessible, fairy-beautiful woman-child in a land beset by outlaws where there is no law but the gun. Encounter the wonderful, real people who populated 1850s Arizona - Captain Ewell, Sylvester Mowry, Great Western, Charles Poston, Tevis, Mose Carson, and Palatine Robinson - as the former dragoon battles Mexican bandits, Apaches and outlaws with wits and brawn.

An anthology of short fiction and short non-fiction. Showdown at Echo Amphitheatre is an historical fiction concerning an event in Kit Carson's life. In Can We Still Collect the Bounty gunfighter Clay Allison is embarrassed. What do you do when the government won't permit any law enforcement? Find out in the Marshal of Arizona. Wind Wagon Thomas sails all the way to New Mexico in Pirates of the Llano Estacado. A soldier who fought in the bloody battle of Cieneguilla writes home in Letter from Fort Burgwin. In the Power of Fox and Snake an Apache poses as a Spanish Grandee and becomes a...