Richard S Wheeler

When three people need to leave Virginia City, they face a jarring stagecoach ride across the plains toward Salt Lake through an area infested with ruthless road agents.

As Barnaby Skye, a Rocky Mountain trapper and frontiersman, and his wife Victoria journey to St. Louis so Barnaby can apply for a job as a post trader, they encounter danger in the form of Alexandre Bonfils, a deadly rival who also wants the post trader position.

A novelization of the adventures of American explorer John Fremont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel finds him trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, from where he must fight his way out.

After her husband dies, her son is killed and her house is burned to the ground, mine owner March McPhee, targeted by the wealthy and powerful, fights back with the help of a saloon man, an assayer and a slippery lawyer, but wonders if wealth of any sort should be defended at such a price.

The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about to change. August Beausoleil and his colleague, Charles Pomerantz, have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana. Though the towns are starved for entertainment, the Follies struggles...