"The Rarest Breed", an Amazon Short

A few years ago, I came up with a story idea in which a hide hunter has a chance to kill a rare white buffalo, an achievement that would bring him the envy of his peers and possibly even some wealth. However, I had trouble coming up with a meaningful conclusion. Finally, I envisioned the solution while staring across the Great Plains where once the American bison roamed.

4,272 words, 15 pages

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COME SUNDOWN

 

Reluctant hero, Honore Greenwood, has a knack for embroiling himself in the most violent conflicts of the Southern Plains. Known as Plenty Man to the Comanches, Honore serves as ransom negotiator for captives among the Indians. As if his life wasn’t in danger enough, Honore has offered his services to the New Mexico Volunteers in the Civil War. But as Honore’s luck would have it, he’s in the same unit as Luther Sheffield, a man whose grudge against Greenwood knows no boundaries, even though they are fighting on the same side. Leaving behind his beautiful Arapaho bride, Honore rides out, joining his legendary friend, Kit Carson, as a scout. But he is swept into more action than he bargained for—heavy combat in the battles of Val Verde Ford and Glorieta Pass plus Indian attacks—all the while watching over his shoulder for the ruthless Luther Sheffield. Worried that he may soon be ordered to take up arms against his own adoptive tribe, the Comanches, Honore resigns as Kit’s scout to return to his tribe.

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Hardcover - 480 pages (June 2006)
Forge; ISBN:
0312867050

 


 

MOON MEDICINE Click Here to read first chapter

 

Honore Greenwood is ninety-nine, a legend in his own time--and when he sits down to tell his tale, people listen. IN the 1840's Greenwood was wanted for murder in Paris after killing a master swordsman to avenge the woman he loved.  To escape, he stowed away on a packet bound for New Orleans, making his way to the wildest frontier in America, the Indian ranges of the Great Southern Plains.  Shortly after his arrival, he meets and falls in love with Gabriela Badillo, a beautiful young woman from Taos.  But when he learns that she is promised to another, Honore goes back to the wilderness and volunteers for a dangerous project--he will build a fort right in the middle of Comanche country.

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Hardcover - 416 pages (August 2001)
Forge; ISBN: 0312867042
 

 
 
 

SUMMER OF PEARLS

 

* 2001 Spur Award Winner for Best Western Novel *

Ben Crowell remembers the Great Caddo Lake Pearl Rush of 1874. He was fourteen that year, and his home, the riverboat community of Port Caddo, was dying. By the end of the summer, the pearl boom was over, Port Caddo was doomed, and the mystery over who killed Judd Kelso began. It took Ben forty years to solve the mystery, and once he did, the proof came only for him to witness. He is the only living soul who will know what happened that September night in 1874.

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Hardcover - 224 pages (September 2000)
Forge; ISBN: 0312875169 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x 8.58 x 5.77
 

 
 
   
 

COMANCHE DAWN

Born on the day the first horse comes to his people, Horseback matures into a leader of uncommon strength and vision. Through the powerful medicine granted to him by the spirits, and the love of Teal, the most beautiful woman of his tribe, Horseback strives to bring about the triumph of his own spirit and the rise of one of the fiercest mounted nations in history.

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Mass Market Paperback - 576 pages 1 Mass mkt edition (May 1999)
Forge; ISBN: 0812548337 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.24 x 6.68 x 4.19
 

 
 
   
 

THE SNOWY RANGE GANG

Retired livestock detective Claude Duval finds hands turning up dead and cattle missing. It looks like the work of Lone Wolf Wolverton, the man who murdered Duvall's partner years ago. But Lone Wolf, who's gone straight, rides to Duval's ranch looking for a chance to prove he's being framed.

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Mass Market Paperback - 256 pages Reprint edition (September 1998)
Forge; ISBN: 0812563573 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.68 x 6.70 x 4.14
 

 
 
   
 

VENDETTA GOLD

After three years in a dusty Texas prison, Roy Huckaby vows to ride the straight and narrow. But a trip to Boot Hill seems more likely when he gets tangled up with a beautiful woman, a bloody range war, and a hunt for lost gold.

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Mass Market Paperback - 256 pages 1st Forge edition (September 1998) Forge; ISBN: 0812589157 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.67 x 6.72 x 4.19
 

 
 
   
 

SHORTGRASS SONG

The story of a drifting cowboy musician, this epic novel follows Caleb Holcomb from boyhood to manhood in the volatile years between 1860 and 1884 on the frontier of the High Plains and Rocky Mountains.  Unable to get along with his war-hero father, Caleb drifts at a young age, but learns to use his musical talents to his advantage.  As a drifter, an entertainer, a cowboy, a miner, a buffalo hunter, and Indian fighter, Caleb sees the open frontier of his childhood come to an end.  Along the way he finds love and heartbreak, violence and victory, friends and enemies.  And, always an audience eager for his entertaining songs.

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Mass Market Paperback - 448 pages Reprint edition (June 1995)
Tor Books; ISBN: 0812530292 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.35 x 6.79 x 4.23
 

 
 
   
 

TOO LONG AT THE DANCE

Cowboy musician Caleb Holcomb returns in this breathtaking sequel to "Shortgrass Song", and takes readers through the West's bloody cattle wars, the last great cattle drives, and the wild, lawless land rushes that settled the Indian Territory.

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Mass Market Paperback - 532 pages Reprint edition (July 1998)
Forge; ISBN: 0812548329 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.16 x 6.69 x 4.20
 

 
 
   
 

DEAD RECKONING

After a botched confidence scam, swindler Dee Hassard begins a killing spree that covers half of the Colorado Territory. His first victim is the brother of rustler-turned-preacher Carrol Moncrief. Now, Carrol must fall back on his former outlaw savvy to track the murderer down.

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Mass Market Paperback - 288 pages (January 1997)
Forge; ISBN: 0812548302 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.58 x 7.12 x 4.25
 

 
 
   
 

SPANISH BLOOD

In 1870, Bart Young heads for the New Mexico Territory, where he's heard men were making fortunes overnight in land speculation on the old Spanish grants. But the ranchers are stubborn and the local officials corrupt, and many men were there ahead of him. Bart's dream seems hopeless until he stumbles onto evidence of a lost grant bigger than he could have ever imagined--the entire Sacramento Mountain Range.

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Mass Market Paperback (September 1996)
Tor Books; ISBN: 0812548310 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.87 x 6.80 x 4.24
 

 
 
   
 

FOREVER TEXAS

Forever Texas : Texas History, the Way Those Who Lived It Wrote It
by Mike Blakely (Editor), Mary Elizabeth Sue Goldman (Editor).

 

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Hardcover - 208 pages (October 2000)
Forge; ISBN: 031286776X ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.11 x 8.55 x 5.79
 

 
 
   
 
     

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