Gary McCarthy

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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....

Mando Killion's world was shattered by Santa Anna's brutal invasion of Texas....

On their way to Colorado, Ruff and Dixie Ballou drive their horses through New Mexico....

In the wake of disaster, the surviving members of the Ballou family sought a new beginning on the Texas Frontier....

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....

The Horseman, is the story of the Ballou family's brave struggle to fulfill a dream....

Haunted by the blood and bitterness of the Civil War, Houston Ballou escaped from Tennessee on the proud stallion High Fire....

Our American West, Volume 4 completes this collection of historical stories written by Gary McCarthy....

Our American West, Volume 3 is filled with western frontier stories you’ll find entertaining.

Our American West, Volume 2 begins with America’s first colonizers, the prairie dogs, and how they were so hated by ranchers on the range that they were almost made extinct

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