"Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches,...

When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.

Thrilling scenes and incidents, fierce encounters with Indians and wild beasts, early privations of the American pioneers, biographical sketches of many early settlers.

"Gathered for the first time, this robust collection of eighteen frontier tales, Half a Pig (and Other Stories of the West), from Spur and Wrangler Award-winning author Matthew P. Mayo, rides hard with a range of fast-action offerings, including the previously unpublished novella, "Trouble at Tall Pine," starring ever-popular Roamer, noble loner forever trying to lose himself in the West. Inside, you'll find the lynching-inspired Spur Award finalist...

The library of the westward expansion series. Describes the lives of some women who became known during the western expansion in nineteenth century America. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kidanpped by the Shawnees at age twenty-three and pregnant with her third child, Mary Ingles walked one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness with the Ohio River as her guide. Follow the River is based on her true story.

Orphaned at six and living at the Stevenses' farm, nine-year-old Katie Rose develops a bond with an unbroken mustang that Mr. Stevens brings home.