Gary McCarthy

Here is the bold adventure story of William Dunn, an educated man yet an accomplished mountain man. His life becomes forever entwined with the wild, unforgettable Grand Canyon....

In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between outlaw and citizen was thinly drawn, two women struggled, fought, and won....

Ruff Ballou and his sister Dixie journeyed west with trouble at their heels. But luck is on their side in Rum River, New Mexico, where they race one of their champion thoroughbreds to victory....

In Our American West, Volume 1, discover humor, tragedy, and courage in every one of these delightful stories....

They were on their way to the richest silver strike in human history. Six people who met in a Sierra blizzard enroute to the infamous Comstock Lode....

Two Colorado cowboys searching for strayed cattle during a harsh snow storm discover the remains of an ancient city built into the side of a huge cliff....

The Gila River flows gently through the parched Sonoran Desert. Along its banks, fierce Apaches, Pima farmers, Spaniards, and brash Americans all vie for control in a harsh and unforgiving land....

To Libby Pike and her family, the Humboldt brought sudden disaster. Stranded with her young daughter, Libby found herself surrounded by hostile renegades....

Stripped of his rank for marrying an Indian girl, Lieutenant Anton Rostov is cast into a North California river wilderness....

When the rest of the West was already won... the mountains remained unspoiled and deadly. The men and women who tamed this savage land were tough, lawless and, when necessary, as mean as the traps they carried....

John Augustus Sutter came to the wide and wild California country to build an empire....

On the vast and indescribably beautiful South Rim of the Grand Canyon, a young Hualapai boy faces a bleak future in 1902....

Half-breed Charlie Coyote takes on the notorious Brahman bull "Buzzard" during an all-Indian Rodeo in Winslow, Arizona....

Even while the brewing Civil War threatened to tear the country in half North from South, the race was on to bind the country together East to West by railroad....

For young Quinn Wallace, reaching the land called Yellowstone was a quest he would rather die for than abandon....

The carefully selected stories in this collection are vibrant proof that the great American West is a fertile ground to storytellers....

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger....

Bruin Henry's not proud of the life he's led. Robbing stagecoaches cost him the love of his daughter. Along the way, he's been blamed for worse crimes - namely, cold-blooded murder....

Irish immigrant Michael Callahan gets the gold fever and stakes a claim in California. Just when persistence and ingenuity finally payoff, he is jumped by thieves intent upon taking his gold and his life....

Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870s....