Adventures on the American Frontier Books
The Joyton family runs a station for the famed Butterfield Stage Line on a mountain pass in southern Arizona. A pleasant, solitary lifestyle. Until a stagecoach arrives with a dead man inside. They are told the mysterious man accidentally shot himself. But fourteen-year-old Drew Joyton suspects foul play. Meanwhile, a new family arrives and begins to build a store, even though no town exists nearby. And a dangerous stranger appears. Then hostile Apaches pin down two wagon drivers headed for the pass. Drew and his sister Blaze must decide whether to risk their lives to bring help.
Gabe Young is an orphan. He barely survives in the unforgiving West by working for meals at mining camps and frontier towns. Then in 1860 he gets lost along the Humboldt River in northern Nevada Territory. He meets a girl, who takes him to her parents at a Pony Express station. With them Gabe finds a whole lot more than shelter and a meal. He discovers a father’s provision, a mother’s love, and a young girl’s interest. But most of all, he discovers God’s grace. Gabe can hardly believe the family’s tender care for him, and when he gets a chance to help them, he rides several legs of the dangerous Pony Express trail with the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election and the impending Civil War. Gabe learns the power of prayer and love in this second installment of the Adventures on the American Frontier series.
When her husband is killed in a railroad accident, leaving no pension or provision for the future, Daisy Hopewell opens a bakery with her three sons and sells doughnuts in northern Utah Territory in 1869. With the help of friends in the Union Pacific Railroad, Daisy secures a great location for her bakery at Promontory Point. Everyone converging on the Utah plains knows that when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroad lines join, history, as well as fortunes, will be made. The Hopewells just want enough profit to pay off some bills. Alex, the oldest, believes it is his responsibility to take care of his mother and his brothers. But nothing is simple. His younger brother Cyrus shirks his responsibility by trying to dream up new-fangled contraptions, a blonde-haired girl complicates Alex’s life, and some menacing gunmen hide a mysterious package at the family’s bakery. In the midst of almost losing everything, the Hopewells find that the Lord has had a plan all along, a plan that is even more exciting than the historic event they are allowed to witness in this final installment of the Adventures on the American Frontier series.