National Network for Equitable Library Service

The battlefield itself is a character in this retelling of Custer's Last Stand, when George Custer led his soldiers to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876. First-person narratives from Indian and white, military and civilian, men and women bring the events to life.

After narrowly escaping from horse thieves, Chane Weymer joins the Melberne-Loughbridge horse-hunting outfit in the Wild Horse Mesa region with the hopes of capturing the wild stallion Panguitch.

Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. Yet now, approaching seventy years of hard living, he finds everything he has fought for being torn asunder. Texas is joining the Confederacy, and Houston, a Unionist who has been cast out as governor, quickly loses power, prestige, and friends. He could hide in retirement, but such is not the way of a warrior. The Raven prepares for his most important fight yet.

J. T. Latham is rotting in prison in the Yuma Territory penitentiary. But then Sheriff Del Buchman offers to commute his sentence if Latham helps execute a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos. The only catch is that he must guide the sheriff through the deadly Sonoran Desert.

A strike breaker looks back at his life, and his unwilling involvement in the bloody Gunnison Affair at Red Devil Salt Works in Rio Tinto, Texas.

A collection of 2 stories. "Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army" is set in eastern Oregon, at a forgotten outpost left behind by the regular Army during the War between the States. Fort Haney is now home to a troop of fifty-seven men, raw recruits in the Oregon Volunteer Cavalry, who care little about fighting except among themselves, in spite of the fact that they are surrounded by hostile Snake and Cayuse Indians, just waiting for opportune moments to strike at farmers, ranchers, and stagecoaches. "Furnace Flat" is set in Death Valley.

Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon, only to find himself in a war the pioneers will undoubtedly lose.

The South Carolina backcountry is no place for a young girl to grow up in the 1760s, but sixteen-year-old Emily Stewart wouldn't have it any other way. She loves the settlement of Ninety Six where her father Breck Stewart runs a tavern with his family, including Emily's embittered older brother, Donnan. But there's much to fear, too. Gangs of murderers, thieves, and robbers terrorize the country with impunity. Breck Stewart is finally forced to take a stand, forming a vigilante group called the Cane Creek Regulators.

Though young, he'd built a far-reaching bad reputation. Denver knew him as the Doctor; Texans called him Montana; Idahoans called him Texas. But when he gets arrested for vagrancy, he tells the sheriff he is Alfred Lamb. Will it stick when a rancher needs his help to battle cattle rustlers?

Retired sergeant Thaddeus McCallum teams up with Pedro Peralta to rescue a friend from the clutches of the notorious rebel Pancho Villa.