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In 1925, Elijah Winters brings his daughter to a remote trading post in Arizona, but ranch life bores her. To awaken her to a new, healthier way of life, Elijah colludes with a young archaeologist searching for an ancient kiva of a primitive Indian tribe that disappeared centuries before.

Joel McAllister, a former lieutenant in the Confederate Army, takes his steadfast sergeant, Riley, and heads west for Idaho Territory, seeking peace and gold. But the trail to Silver City is littered with peril--including a band of merciless Comanche warriors.

Filled with the life, color, and spirit of pioneer days, this is the story of the bravery and heroism of Betty, beautiful young sister of Colonel Isaac Zane.

As newspaper editor of the Payday Pioneer, Sam Flint finds himself in the middle of an all-out war for control of the town, putting his life on the line for what he believes in.

To launch his own newspaper, Sam Flint must face competition from the corrupt editor of the Silver City Democrat.

The story of a young Navajo who is raised by white parents and struggles to find a place in society.

Ross Harney had fought Comanches and rustlers, hunted buffalo and horse thieves. His life had been rich in hard-fisted experience, poor in the goods of the world. But now he was going to ride for himself, fight for himself.

On the western frontier in 1872, twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain is captured by Indians. He escapes and falls in with a Buffalo sharpshooter, and the two face real adventure surviving the unforgiving terrain.

Kidnapped women, a forced marriage, mysterious Mormons, a defrocked minister, and a heroic quest to Utah's Surprise Valley form the basis of this sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage, uncensored for the first time.

Boss Spearman knows that times are changing on the open range for free-grazing cattlemen who don't own land. But more and more settlers are staking claim to the land, and when a local rancher kills one of Boss' crew, he knows he must make a stand.