Melody Groves
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Gold fever hits Andrew Colton & Thomas O'Malley. Raided by Apaches O'Malley is killed. Andy stumbled upon a cabin of a runaway slave named Dawson who abuses him. The other Colton brothers come looking for Andy which leads the Apaches, the Coltons and Dawson in a fight for their lives"--
Author
Series
Colton brothers saga volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008 [i.e. 2009]
Description
Robbed and beaten by outlaws, stagecoach guard James Colton vows to get justice and recover his grandfather's watch. He hunts the bandits, only to face a crooked sheriff who gives him no choice but to shoot. Charged with the sheriff's murder, James' solitary hope is to get the outlaws to testify to the sheriff's villainy. With older brother Trace along to help, the Coltons track the robbers into Mexico. But after Trace is gravely wounded, James is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"A history of the first stagecoach line to connect the East and West coasts"--
"John Butterfield's mail service connected the East and West coasts in one of the great entrepreneurial and pioneering stories of the American West. Until 1858, California's gold fields were reached only by horseback, wagon or ship around Cape Horn. Congress decided a 2,800-mile, twenty-five-day stagecoach line would roll from St. Louis to San Francisco. Former Utica,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The "Brothers' War" divides families. Luke Colton resolutely believes two things: slaves are crucial to the South's well-being, and states must be allowed to make their own laws. No one in his family agrees. Frustrated, Luke joins Confederate guerilla leader William Clarke Quantrill, confident that they will make a difference. By the time he figures out he is wrong, it's too late. Quantrill's out to burn down Lawrence and kill Luke for being a traitor....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"At times, the black-hatted "villains" and white-hatted "good guys" of the Old West were one and the same. Often it was difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish who was who. Sheriff Wyatt Earp stole horses and ran brothels. Albuquerque's first town marshal, Milton Yarberry, was accused of murder and subsequently "jerked to Jesus." Burt Alvord, town marshal of Willcox, Arizona, and friends, robbed a train. Alvord then deputized these same friends...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"All she wanted - a gold band. What she got - a tin star. Maud Overstreet figured she'd grow up, get married, have a house with a white picket fence and more kids than she could count. After thirty-five years, she still hopes it will happen. Now, in 1872, Dry Creek's town council offers her the job of replacement sheriff; she accepts - with trepidation. Badge now pinned on her frilly blouse, for the first time, she enters a saloon, tastes whiskey,...
7) Sonoran rage
Author
Series
Colton brothers saga volume 2
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Sonoran Range brings alive Southwestern Frontier history--the end of the Butterfield Stage Lines, Cochise's Bloody Uprising, and the first Battle of Apache Pass.
Author
Series
Colton brothers saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
It's Arizona Territory at the start of the Civil War, and the Coltons are caught in the middle of it. In the end, it's all up to James to save Union troops from an Apache attack--if he can summon the courage to face his old torturers and their leader, Cochise.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"How hard can it be to drive three thousand longhorns one thousand miles across the Sonoran Desert and up to California? Its the end of the Civil War, and the demand for beef is high. In Mesilla, James Colton convinces his three brothers theres money to be made. And lots of it. However, the Colton clan is definitely new at this. The brothers climb into their saddles only to encounter problems they had never considered previously. Whid MacGilvry, determined...
.png)