This is a story of a man, David Bennett, who was mistakenly kidnapped by Russian operatives in the New York City. He was flown to Moscow. Upon finding out they had the wrong man, they covered it up by sending him to a work camp south of Kiev in the Ukraine. There he meets a woman, Leda Miefski, who is a Russian political prisoner. She went through college in America as her father was a diplomat from the Russian government. Her uncle had defected to England and the Russians had no one else to punish, so they punished her father, mother and her. They escaped the work farm, making a daring...

After serving in the Civil War with Mosby's Rangers, Kelly Andrews wanted a quiet life away from people. He found such a job as a cowboy near Springfield, Missouri. After three years, the owner sold his ranch, and the new owner had his own crew.
This set Kelly on his way west to find a new life. He stopped in Coffeeville to change a gold piece into smaller money. While he was in the bank, robbers came in and ordered the customers to the floor. Kelly was lying beside a young woman who was frantic. He calmed her by putting his hand on hers and whispering to her. One of the robbers saw...

At the age of thirteen, Ben Carson (Lee) was on a wagon train that was ambushed by Indians. Miraculously, he was saved from the slaughter when he was inadvertently locked under the seat of their wagon. He was the lone survivor. After burying his parents and two sisters, he continued west on foot. He met an Indian who had been kicked out of his tribe and left to die. The Indian had been schooled by missionaries and spoke excellent English. The two became friends and decided to form their own tribe. Being that the Indian's first name started with Le, Ben decided that both of them should have...

This story is about a soldier, Alvin Scott, who is ambushed by Indians while on patrol in the 1860s. The patrol is killed, but Alvin is just wounded badly and is unconscious. An Indian woman, who had been kicked out of her tribe, watches the ambush from a rocky crag high above the ambush. She comes to the scene after the Indians leave to scavenge anything she can use. She finds Alvin is alive and is lying on his rifle. She knows Alvin will be essential to her surviving if she can save him.
She takes him back to a cave where she is living, tends to his wounds, and saves his life. They...

Marvin Ellis starts out for California at age nineteen. He joins a cattle drive that he caught up to. Unknown to him, the cattle were stolen. The owner and his men catch up to them and only through his ingenuity of hiding along a creek did he keep from being hung. He was now on foot but ran into a Mexican woman and her two children. They were alone as bandits had killed the husband. Marvin joins them as they need him. They are headed for Chihuahua City. Marvin couldn't leave them by themselves, so he helps them along their way. Bandits attack them, and Marvin was able to kill most of them....

This is the story of a boy who was left by his family to travel to California while he went to school. Their son, Brady Scott, after finishing high school, entered the military academy at West Point. On the first day, he met his roommate, Colin Smith. Smith would have an influence on Brady and two other friends for the rest of their lives.

The story tells several love stories, along with the adventures, not only in the war, but before and after. It tells how a woman cast a spell on Brady and how it affected him. He had two loyal friends that helped him. They all had a special bond,...

Sid Porter was raised in and around Junction, Texas. He fell in love when he was twelve years old with a woman thirty years his senior. When he was nineteen, she hired Sid, and he worked for her for two years. She then had to let him go because of a draught. Although she loved Sid like a son, she only realized that she was in love with him after they parted. 

Sid traveled to Mexico, where he embraced the land and its people. He wrote love letters to his sweetheart every week he was gone. The letters melted her heart, and later she wrote him to come home and that she would marry...

A precocious child, Thomas Benson, has all the resources to pursue his academics until his last year in medical school. Ft. Sumner is fired upon, and the war is on. His mother and his professors do their best to keep Thomas out of the war so he can complete the last year of medical school. However, this angers the war department, and he is conscripted into the military. Instead of sending him to the medical unit, he is sent to the infantry. As he has a college degree, he is given a commission, and sent directly into the war. Being resourceful, he watches his sergeants in battle and tries...