Wagons West Books
When the Panic of 1837 creates hard times, a dauntless band of pioneering men and women journey from Long Island to Missouri with the hopes of eventually finding a better future in the rich Oregon Territory.
Autumn, 1837. Blazing onward from New York to Missouri, the legendary wagon train sent by US President Andrew Jackson has reached the last outpost of civilization. Now 500 strong, these brave pioneers set a course across the great rolling plains towards the treacherous Rockies, hoping to stake a claim in the American West.
1838. The first wagon train to Oregon country moved slowly across the Great Plains, reaching the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in early autumn. Led by wagon scout Whip Holt, the 500 strong community of courageous men, women, and children prepare for the bitter winter ahead.
Crossing the Rockies, America's first wagon train enters the Oregon territory in hopes of blocking the claims of Russia and England, and insuring that the region becomes part of the United States. Reissue. 70,000 first printing.
It's 1844. The bold new Republic of Texas is fighting for its life. Rallying to the cause of liberty, the brave pioneers who forged the Oregon Trail are called upon to lead a new wagon train into the fray. Leaving their homes in the thriving Oregon Territory, they face impossible odds on the wild Texas frontier, overrun with dangerous outlaws, native tribes, and the powerful Mexican Army. Among the freedom fighters are veteran commander Lee Blake and his wife Kathy, boat builder Harry Canning, and the fearless volunteers who would risk their lives as Texas Rangers. Their new leader, Captain Rick Miller, holds the destiny of Texas in his hands. But in his heart, he hides a passion for a woman he cannot have - and a dream he cannot surrender. This is the fight for Texas, in all its grit, glory, and grandeur. This is America at its best...
The Gold Rush of 1848 is sweeping the US from coast to coast. But in Sacramento Valley, California, settlers face an all-out assault on the homes they'd struggled so hard to build in the face of the new wave of incomers who are chasing their own version of the American Dream.
Some came for freedom, others to build a new life. But in 1858, when gold is discovered in the Colorado region, thousands of desperate men and women descend on Denver like a hungry swarm. Homesteaders struggle to hold onto their claims, but none are immune to the effects of gold fever.
Major General Lee Blake must outsmart Confederate saboteurs and British agents in order to guarantee a Nevada silver shipment safely reaches New York. Reissue.
The Civil War is over. North and South, battle-weary soldiers are returning home. But wounded veteran Toby Holt, son of legendary wagon-master Whip Holt, is riding west to claim a homestead on the Washington timberland - and reunite with a wife he barely knows.
Toby Holt, son of the legendary wagonmaster Whip Holt, courageously accepts a presidential mandate to extend the Northwest Railroad across the hazardous Montana Territory. But Sioux war drums beat a fearsome warning to stay off their land - while the bloodthirsty Hastings gang launch their own wave of terror.
The magnificent saga of bold men and defiant women riding under freedom's banner into a raw, untamed land.
Raw determination carried them across steep mountain trails to the lawless territory of Utah. Here brawny work gangs and rugged engineers blasted out rock-walled tunnels and laid countless miles of shining rails to link a vast continent from coast to distant coast. But soon rampaging Indians with rifles blazing joined unscrupulous ranchers in trying to stop the iron wheels of progress from entering this virgin, untamed land.
Toby Holt and his family and friends journey to the rugged Idaho territory, where he has been appointed military governor by President Grant and given the assignment of establishing a lasting peace with rebellious Indians
Toby Holt and Englishman Edmund Blackstone match wits with the unprincipled scoundrel Luis de Cordova, a notorious gunrunner, con man, procurer, and blackmailer, as they attempt to stop an Indian uprising and rescue the lovely Millicent Randall from his shameful clutches
The irresistible lure of limitless opportunity drew con men and kings, merchants and sailors, outlaws and heroes to New Orleans, the spicy Cajun capital at the mouth of the majestic Mississippi. Here European bluebloods mingled with buckskin-clad frontiersmen - knives flashed in deadly duels over marked cards, fancy women, and shady deals - and legal commerce vied with criminal schemes to possess the vast fortunes of America's most ambitious and ruthless men. MISSISSIPPI! From north of St. Louis down past Natchez to the fertile Bayou, the broad deep river carried barges piled high with valuable cargo and stern-wheelers crowded with eager Americans hungry for the sin and sweetness of exciting New Orleans. But on its seamier streets a dark underworld flourished. There, a cruel ex-lawman hid the beautiful young gentlewoman he had seduced with lies, while he plotted to kill the bold Englishman who had sworn to avenge her honor. And from the far west rode Toby Holt - a fighting man as famous as his father, Wagonmaster Whip Holt - to wage a one-man war on a dreaded Oriental Tong... as the forces of good and evil prepared to battle for control of this rich, fast growing land along the MISSISSIPPI!
Under secret orders from the White House, legendary frontiersman Toby Holt journeys to Memphis to stop a conspiracy against the U.S. government, led by a sinister, unscrupulous politician with a powerful, private army of renegades
As roughrider Toby Holt struggles to build a new life in nineteenthcentury Chicago, an old enemy and a former love bring upheaval, tragedy, and death in a tale set against the 1871 fire that devastated Chicago
Famous rough-rider Toby Holt battles the wealthy lumber barons of Milwaukee--including a ruthless enemy obsessed with destroying Holt and his enterprise--to build a lumber operation in the forests of Wisconsin
In the dark aftermath of the Civil War, the legendary Toby Holt is charged with finding a deadly assassin plotting to kill President Grant
With the likely prospect of a bloody range war hanging in the balance, sharpshooter Toby Holt tries to ease the tensions between landowners and cattlemen in the turbulent Oklahoma territory
Of all the states of the union, few have a history as big or bold as that of Texas. From the heroic battle of the Alamo, where brave frontiersmen fight for independence, to the rise of the Texas Rangers, where fearless volunteers defend their home against outlaws and enemies, the people of Texas are a force to be reckoned with.