Historical / XIXth century

Long Remember

by MacKinlay Kantor & Jeff M. Shaara

Long Remember is the first realistic novel about the Civil War. Originally published in 1934, this book received rave reviews from the NY Times Book Review, and was a main selection of the Literary Guild. It...

The Battle of Milroy Station

by Robert H. Fowler

What is the nature of true courage?

In March of 1896, Andrew Jackson Mundy, a senator from the Deep South, is secretly urged by Marc Hanna, the rich kingmaker, to become William McKinley's running mate in the...

Spirit of the Eagle

by Vella Munn

It is 1872.  American Expansionism is at its peak.  Lands once thought uninhabitable are coveted by white settlers, miners, and traders who are spreading through the West.  The last of the Modoc tribe are...

Wind Warrior

by Vella Munn

The Chumash tribe dwelled in harmony with the land, worshiping their gods and spirits.  In the 1880s the Spanish drove them from their homes, forcibly converted them to Christianity, and made them slaves under...

Daughter of the Mountain

by Vella Munn

She'd set out for California, following her father's dream--a disaster haunted dream that had killed her family and threatened the child she struggled to save.  Snow-cloaked mountains, beautiful but heartless,...

Seminole Song

by Vella Munn

Amid rising tensions that will tear apart the United States, Florida in the 1830s is in turmoil.  The Seminole Indians have been ordered to leave their ancestral lands for reservations in Kansas and Oklahoma,...

The River's Daughter

by Vella Munn

Oregon--a land flowing with milk and honey, a land of towering timber, snow-capped peaks, lush, fertile valleys.  A land of gold.  To the pioneering settlers, it was a garden of Eden.  And to the Rogue...

Cheyenne Summer

by Vella Munn

Summer, 1800. There is no rain. Heat bakes the prairie. What little game survives on the trickles of water in the shrinking creeks is fiercely hunted not just by the Cheyenne, but by their enemies, the Pawnee....

Daughter of the Forest

by Vella Munn

The forests of the Pacific Northwest are lands of mist and rain, of towering trees and salmon-choked rivers.  Where forest approaches sea, there live the Tillamook and the Nisqually, two tribes tied to each...

Dreams Beneath Your Feet

by Win Blevins

Eighteen years have passed since Sam Morgan came West from Pennsylvania and learned the perilous business of trapping in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.

Now, in 1840, he seems to face a bleak future. The...

Downriver

by Richard S. Wheeler

Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, Rocky Mountain trapper, and frontiersman extraordinaire, brings his Crow Indian wife, Many Quill Woman (whom Skye calls "Victoria"), to the trappers' rendezvous...

An Obituary for Major Reno

by Richard S. Wheeler

Major Marcus Reno is a controversal figure, a man accused of being responsible for the worst disaster ever to befall the army of the United States. He had been one of George Armstrong Custer's senior officers...

The Fire Arrow

by Richard S. Wheeler

Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies.

In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved...

Red River

by P. G. Nagle

P. G. Nagle, "author of some of the best fiction written about Texas history" (Edward T. Cotham, Jr., author of Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston), writes with power and poignancy of a...