Johnny D Boggs

Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for lynching a priest, a crime that shocked all New Mexico Territory. Yet most people believe that Cole, the son of wealthy Senator Roman Cole, will never be executed. Father Virgilio is so convinced that he will escape execution at Chama that he has raised a reward for anyone who will successfully transport the prisoner there. Britton Wade, a gunfighter and gambler, is determined to do just that....

It's the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for thirteen-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't heard from his father, a sergeant in the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion--to make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre Dumas. But the Civil War keeps getting in his way....

Between the Pecos and the Rio Grande a vast, harsh land was ruled by Texas Ranger Captain Hector Savage. Savage's motive wasn't duty, it was money: he's turned this desolate place into a bloodied, terrorized kingdom. Now his protégé, Sergeant Dave Chance, has come with a prisoner - a big-talking murderer - shackled at his side. A decent, honest Ranger, Chance can't stand by while Savage runs roughshod over the territory. But he'll need help...

Young Comanches Daniel Killstraight and Charles Flint have been called to Texas. Captain Pratt will be giving a talk on the transformations brought about by the Carlisle Industrial School, of which Killstraight and Flint are shining examples. They'll be joining a Comanche delegation led by Quanah Parker, who will be negotiating grasslands leases - until blown-out gas lamps in Quanah Parker's room kill a Comanche chief and put Parker in a coma.

The citizens of Jack County, Texas, live in fear. Kiowa and Comanche warriors who refuse to adapt to reservation life are slaughtering settlers in brutal raids. Instead of unleashing the Army against the tribes, General William Tecumseh Sherman makes a monumental decision - to bring Kiowa chiefs Satanta and Big Tree to trial for the murder of seven cowboys. Thomas Ball, a gentleman attorney from Virginia, knows nothing about frontier hardship. Texas...

"A fictionalized account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or Greasy Grass as the Indians called it, told by a series of first-hand accounts from both white and Indian points of view provides a panorama of the battle in which a sense of what most likely happened powerfully emerges"--

By the age of twenty-one, Billy the Kid was thought to have killed a man for every year he'd been alive. He evaded the law more times than anyone could count and proved that no jail could hold him. He evaded the law more times than anyone could count and proved that no jail could hold him -- even the prison where he was hel, awaiting a sentence to hang. After many a close shave, Pat Garrett finally catches up to the Kid on December 23, 1880. Then...