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She inherited a ranch. He needed a wife. Their arrangement was supposed to be temporary—until love rewrote the rules.

When photographer Delilah Taylor returns to Wind River Station, Wyoming for her grandmother’s funeral, she expects a quick trip to settle the estate and escape back to her city life. Instead, she discovers a shocking stipulation...

A widow’s desperate journey west. A rancher’s guarded heart. A Christmas miracle that changes everything.
When Clara Bennett arrives in Silver Creek, Montana Territory, she carries little more than hope. Widowed, nearly penniless, and seeking a fresh start, she accepts a position teaching in a one-room schoolhouse on the edge of the frontier. But...

She can outride any cowboy and outshoot any man—but can she outrun the rules of 1880s society?
In the untamed wilds of Montana Territory, 1888, Laura Montgomery is everything a proper lady shouldn’t be. Fiery-haired and fiercely independent, she’d rather wrangle cattle than sew samplers—and she’s determined to prove a woman can run a ranch just...

Breaking the Promise
A Small-Town Hockey Romance
NHL star Jake Matthews returns to his hometown of Milford after a devastating playoff loss, seeking refuge from the media circus and his own self-doubt. He plans to lay low at his childhood best friend Connor’s family lake house for the summer. What he doesn’t expect is to find Connor’s little...

When a brilliant surgeon loses everything, the stars themselves offer her a second chance—eighty years in the past.
Dr. Margaret “Maggie” Baker was at the pinnacle of her career in 1925 Chicago—until tragedy struck. The loss of her husband and unborn child, followed by a devastating blow to her medical practice, leaves her with nothing to live...

I Wish I May
A Time-Travel Romance Novel
When love defies time itself, which world would you choose?
Cardiac nurse Lainie Rosewood thought she had the perfect life planned—until her fiancé abandoned her at the altar for another woman. Devastated and humiliated in front of three hundred wedding guests, she flees to the church’s rose garden where a...

A BRIDGE THROUGH TIME
A Historical Western Romance
When love transcends time itself, can two hearts from different eras build a future together?
San Francisco, 1904. Emily Waters is the city’s most successful female attorney—brilliant, independent, and convinced she needs no one. Then Dr. James Mitchell walks into her office with an impossible...

When old enemies become unlikely allies, love finds a way to heal the deepest wounds.

In 1870 Montana Territory, the McKenna and Callahan families have been locked in a bitter feud for a decade—ever since a tragic fire claimed young Danny Callahan’s life and drove Dusty McKenna into exile. Now, with both ranches facing financial ruin and an early...

When love isn’t enough, sometimes you have to teach someone how to love you properly.

Traci Waters thought she had found her happily ever after when she traveled back in time to 1875 Montana and married rancher Sam Waters. Five years later, she’s discovered that building a marriage across centuries is harder than she ever imagined.

Despite their...

A Marriage of Convenience Becomes an Adventure of the Heart
When Boston schoolteacher Laura Whitmore inherits a Montana ranch from her eccentric great-aunt, she discovers there’s one shocking condition: she must marry within six months and live as a true wife for a year, or lose everything to a ruthless cattle baron. Desperate and out of options,...

When a Boston heiress flees west to escape an unwanted marriage, she never expects to find a wounded gunslinger in her barn, or to discover that saving his life might just save her own.
Jennifer Whitmore has inherited more than just a Montana ranch… she’s inherited a fight for survival. Determined to prove she can make it on the frontier, she’s...

Mattie’s New Love - A Heartwarming Tale of Second Chances

When life gives you a fresh start, sometimes love comes along for the ride.

Mattie thought she owed it to her family to give her marriage one more chance. But how could she trust her heart to a man who broke it so many times before? Jason’s PTSD made his behavior unpredictable, which left...

What if a single moment could tear you away from everything you love—and strand you in a time where you don’t belong?

When NASA astronaut Jason Barber’s aircraft is struck by lightning during a routine mission, he expects to die alongside his fellow crew members. Instead, he awakens in 1872 Oregon Territory, saved by a mysterious woman in white...

From childhood neighbors to passionate lovers, Mattie and Jason’s journey is a testament to love’s resilience against seemingly insurmountable odds.
When Mattie Taylor nearly becomes the victim of a horrific assault at her senior prom, it’s Jason Barber who saves her. Their bond, forged in the innocent games of childhood, deepens as they navigate...

Thomas’s Rebellion is book three of the Eddie’s Journey Series. It is the story of Eddie’s younger brother whose thirst for education clashes with his father’s wants and needs.
In 1880s Montana Territory, sixteen-year-old Thomas Grant dreams of studying geology at an eastern college, but his father William expects him to follow family tradition...

When Edward “Eddie” Grant returns to Baker’s Creek after four years at Harvard University, he finds himself caught between two worlds—his Eastern education and his Western upbringing. Just as he’s struggling to find his place, a mysterious stranger arrives claiming a connection to Eddie’s biological father, a Confederate soldier who died before...

The Sky Door…
A test flight. A mysterious rift. A journey across time that will change two lives forever.
When Lieutenant Jessica Monroe breaks the sound barrier in the Navy’s experimental X-99 fighter jet, she expects to return to base with performance data—not crash-land in 1875 Montana. Stranded in a world of horse-drawn carriages and frontier...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, young widow Rebecca Allen struggles to provide for her four-year-old son Eddie in their small South Carolina town. Desperate to escape the unwanted advances of wealthy landowner Jeremiah Blackwood and create a better life for her son, Rebecca answers a matrimonial advertisement from a Montana rancher seeking a...

In 2025, Captain Eva Sinclair is at the top of her game—an elite fighter pilot testing the most advanced stealth jet ever engineered. But when a catastrophic malfunction sends her aircraft into an uncontrolled dive, she braces for certain death.

Instead, she awakens in 1870 Montana Territory.

Injured and disoriented, Eva is discovered by Colt...

In the unforgiving Montana wilderness, love is the only currency that matters.

Henry Mercer thought he knew everything about survival—until Sarah Thompson rode into his life. With his family’s ranch teetering on the edge of ruin and a generations-old land dispute threatening everything he holds dear, Henry must choose between tradition and...

In post-Civil War South Carolina, Rebecca O’Connor has everything a young lady could want - wealth, status, and a suitable marriage prospect. Everything except freedom.

Suffocating under the weight of Southern society’s expectations, Rebecca dreams of something more than arranged marriages and afternoon tea parties. When her brother’s letters...

Romance on the western frontier.

Two lonely people.
Both marked by grief.

Robert was forced to raise his two daughters alone after his beloved wife died giving birth. Rosemary’s husband took his last breath on the floor of his mill, leaving her stranded with no family close by.

After years alone with their sorrow, the two meet and experience an...

Loves lost, but hope remains.

The war stole her husband.
A stroke claimed his wife.
Both were left alone, trying to raise an infant during a time of civil unrest.

A mutual friend arranged the first contact between Mary Beth and Cody, hoping it would help heal the scars of grief carved into their hearts. Separated by half a continent, they enjoyed...

A bird strike turns Hannah’s plane into a screaming, out of control metal tube. She blacks out and awakens, alone and lost in a dense forest. Two hunters find her and return her to civilization, but it’s no longer 2020. There are no more planes, lattes, or designer clothes; she has been thrown one hundred-forty years into the past.

Ethan, a...

Afghanistan had claimed Diana’s first husband; PTSD had taken the second.

Nick Carlisle and his daughter, Jordie, want Diana to be a part of their lives, but she is afraid to risk bringing her bad luck down on them.

A magic amulet catapults them back one hundred and fifty years in time, seconds before a fiery collision with an...

Life ripped them apart, but fate will bring them back together…
Bound in childhood friendship, they share laughs, dreams, and secrets.

But before that friendship blossoms into something more, life sends them on different paths, following different dreams. While both achieve success, neither one realizes true happiness.

Fate steps in when Jake...

Widowed and almost forty years old, Sally’s chances of finding love again are getting smaller by the day. The only men in her small Virginia hometown are either much older or married.
Luke’s wife died giving birth to their second child. The horrible things he had seen and done during the war, coupled with the loss of his beloved Becky overwhelmed...

Because she was being stalked, Julia made the painful decision to leave the town she thought would be her forever home.
Seth Lawson had wanderlust. Always ready to see what lay on the other side of the mountain. The last thing he expected was to fall in love.
Can Seth and Julia overcome the obstacles fate has forced them to overcome and make a...

Mary Catherine was abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant. Still unadopted, she is nearing the maximum age for the orphanage. Neither of the two choices offered by the mother superior hold much promise. Will it be the orphan train or the streets of New York City?

Trace Jennings lost his father in the Civil War. He was raised by his...

After two tragic events in Abby Hartley’s life, she has become leery of close relationships. Her teaching position is not satisfying her desire to be a mother. The rejection of matchmaking efforts from her best friend almost cost her the friendship.
Nathan Simms has struggled against his grandmother and her determination to arrange a match with a...

Thomas Carrington is from one of the wealthiest families in the Rio Grande Valley, unmarried, and devastatingly handsome.
Katie Ellis, a nurse in San Antonio, lost both her parents in the hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900. During a visit to the Carrington Ranch, she becomes uncomfortable and hurriedly returns to San Antonio.
Can she get over...

A loner by nature due to a troubled youth, physicist Charles Vanlandingham struggles to express his feelings at the best of times. Combine this with a trip back in time that nearly costs him his life and left him reeling, he seems incapable of dealing with his feelings of love.

A recent medical school graduate, Kari Berlucci, puts her career on...

A Marriage of Convenience” is the first of a ten book series called “The Pinckney’s of Charleston”. Each of the brother’s will have a book based on his exploits and adventures.

This is a story about a young woman, daughter of a Boston owner of a gentleman’s club and a wealthy member of the upper strata of Boston society.

After both parents are...

In the tumultuous landscape of post-Civil War America, “Love on the Oregon Trail” sweeps readers into the heart of Steubenville, Ohio, where dreams of new beginnings clash with haunting memories of the past. Hiram Lewis sells his farm, hoping to carve out a better life for his family out West. Along the journey, his daughter, Mandy, faces her...

A western historical Oregon Trail Romance of 39,000 words, or around 150 pages. It is a clean story with one non-explicit sexual scene between a married couple. The heat level is 2 or rated GP.

Angie Thornton met Jed Lewis after being swept downstream in a flash flood. She was found by a small boy from a nearby wagon train on a tree limb in a...

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A western historical Oregon Trail Romance of 39,000 words, or around 150 pages. It is a clean story with one non-explicit sexual scene between a married couple. The heat level is 2 or rated GP.
Angie Thornton met Jed Lewis after being swept downstream in a flash...

A sweet historical western romance with a heat level of less than one.
June 2015 Anna finished pinning the broken strap on her Victorian gown just before the earthquake began shaking the walls of the Ladies Room at the country club. Led to safety by a mysterious woman, she walks out onto a Helena street a century and a half earlier.
The...

In July, 2015, just days before her wedding, Abby Sanders came home early from shopping for a wedding dress and found her fiancé in bed with a co-worker. Distraught, she visits her grandmother in Laramie, Wyoming
Caught in a time warp, she is transported to 1867 where she meets Thomas Barnes who wants to get married… to Abby. Can she get past...

Caroline and Ben grew up together, shared a desk in their one-room school, shared a first love, and shared their first kiss.
At fifteen, Ben’s family sold their farm and joined a caravan on the Oregon Trail.
Separated by half a continent, Caroline and Ben both grew up and moved on, marrying, having children and losing their spouses. They meet...

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Laurie Winston, the sweet daughter of a lawyer, wants to follow her father’s footsteps. She plans to someday join his practice after finishing law school. She’s single-mindedly focused on her career pursuits and has no interest in the young men her age.
When...

Sally Lewis lost her husband, Cal, on the third day of the battle of Gettysburg. Evicted by the bank, she and her son have to move in with her in-laws. She advertises for a husband
Luke Cranston lost his beloved Ruby to diphtheria and is mired in grief and loneliness and tries to find a mail order bride.
Does Sally dare take the risk of becoming...

Part 2 of a two part serial. This is Part 2 of a two part serial, with both parts released simultaneously.
A touching love story of a boy and girl from Rimrock, Montana. Kim and Greg were the idyllic couple. He was the quarterback and captain of the football team, while Kim was a cheerleader and homecoming queen. Their academic records were...

Part one of a two part serial. A contemporary western love story of a Montana couple, sweethearts through all of high school and separated when Greg goes to West Point and Kim enrolls in Stanford. They manage to overcome the distance separating them, but will they overcome the self imposed barrier erected by Kim after she is assaulted on campus?...

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A four book collection of historic western romances with stories of the challenges faced by mail order brides in the Montana Territory in 1860-1880. The men of the American West were strong and rugged, so were...

“Samantha’s Dream” is a Christian, historical romance novelette set in the 1880’s.
Samantha has no time for romance in her life because of her dream. She wants to become a doctor and surgeon, and has the full support of a loving, caring family. In the first year of medical school, she meets Ben, a second year student, son of a wealthy family...

This is a revision and renaming of Montana Christmas Bride plus a new cover.
A historical western romance set in Helena, Montana in the period between 1872-1883.
Titus Britton is the son of Cindy Gaston Britton and Carl, who died on Jul 3, 1863 in the Battle of Gettysburg. He fell in love with Inger Swenson, a classmate and was stunned when she...

This is a sweet, western romance with Christian overtones; complete with no cliffhangers and does not require reading of the three previous stories to enjoy it. There is a minimum of sexual activity between husband and wife, and no explicit descriptions and no vulgarity.
The story is set in the 1870 time period on a ranch outside Helena,...

It’s here! The sequel to the popular A Soldier’s Widow. If you like sweet, tender, western romance, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.
Cindy Britton was twenty-three when her husband was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. The war had taken its toll on men her age and by her twenty-seventh birthday her mother began inviting men her father...

The conclusion of a two-part western historic romance about a war widow and her desperate search for happiness and security. Miriam Ponder traveled three fourths of the way across the country to become a mail order bride, only to find her prospective groom fought in the same battle that took her husband but he was on the other side.
Through...

This is a clean, western romance; a short story of about 17,000 words. It is the first part of a serial that tells of Sarah Collins’ heartbreaking loss of her husband in a tornado, and her struggle to make a worthwhile life for herself and her two sons. It is set in frontier Montana in the 1904 time frame.

A tornado touched down on the Collins...

This is a serial of over 28,500 words. The story will be concluded in part two to be released by September 2015.

This is the story of Miriam Ponder of Yorkville, South Carolina. Miriam became a widow on November 24, 1863, when her husband, Hiram was killed during the Battle of Missionary Ridge. His name never appeared on the casualty lists and...

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This is a serial of over 28,500 words. The story will be concluded in part two to be released by September 2015.
This is the story of Miriam Ponder of Yorkville, South Carolina. Miriam became a widow on November 24, 1863, when her husband, Hiram was killed during...

The Montana Teacher Collection contains parts 1-3 of The Montana Teacher Series. The story of Sara Collins, a school teacher from Battle Ground, Indiana facing the challenge of providing for and raising twin boys on a meager teacher’s salary after her husband is killed in a...

This is the latest historic western romance book in the Montana Teacher Series. It is a stand-alone story and is not dependent on reading of the other three.
Brett and Bart Collins are the identical twin sons of Sarah Collins Evans a teacher in the Mountain View Montana School District. Their father was killed in a tornado in Battleground,...

This is the third is a series of short stories about Sarah and Tal Evans. The previous two stories were:
Part One: Sarah’s Story
Part Two: Back Home in Indiana
They are both available on Amazon for 99.
Sarah Collins and Tal Evans have faced a series of disasters that threatened the life of Tal and fell in love. This completes the story of how...

This is a clean, western romance; a short story of about 17,000 words. It is the first part of a serial that tells of Sarah Collins’ heartbreaking loss of her husband in a tornado, and her struggle to make a worthwhile life for herself and her two sons. It is set in frontier Montana in the 1904 time frame.

A tornado touched down on the Collins...

This is a serial story, it is a continuation of Montana Teacher, and will have a follow on into Sarah’s Prayer.
This is a tender western romance that tells the story of a young mother of twins who lost her husband in a violent tornado. With no apparent means to provide for her sons, she is offered a teaching position at two times her present...

This is a clean, tasteful short story of approximately 17,000 words. It is complete with no cliffhangers.
This is the story of Ashley Sanders, a young girl raised in the town of Mountain View, Montana. At the age of sixteen, the senior in high school has the world as she knows it completely torn apart.
Her mother and father divorce, and she is...

This is a clean, sweet, and tender western romance set in frontier Montana. Several characters in previous books appear here. This novella stands alone and you won’t miss anything if you haven’t read the other books.
It is the story of Jack Pinckney a young man with a burning desire to become a doctor. He showed no interest in any of the...

The Montana Bachelor’s Bride is the story of Thomas Pinckney, son of Texas Ranger, Brent and Angela Pinckney. His mother died in childbirth and for the first five years, it was just him and his grieving father, and Callie a combination nanny, cook and housekeeper. After numerous attempts by friends at matchmaking, Brent married Lily, who was the...

Montana Freedom is a sweet and tender historical love story suitable for anyone fifteen years or older.
It is the story of Emma Callahan, who was born in Ireland and came to America with her parents. They settled in the section of the Bronx occupied primarily by the Irish.
With low self-esteem, Emma has never had a boyfriend. After the last of...

Linda Jensen was a horsewoman. When her father died at the early age of forty-five, she was left to run the Lazy J Quarter Horse Ranch. It was an overwhelming task.
She lost her heart and her virtue to Tom Myers, a handsome neighboring rancher. They made plans to combine the two ranches into one large operation. Then Linda found out he was...

Sarah Black was assaulted by a rejected boyfriend. When she discovered she was pregnant, her father, Casper sold their home, and most of their possessions and then bought a place in a wagon train headed for California to protect her from the gossipy townspeople, despite having a terminal illness.
To her dismay, a narrow minded preacher from...

This is a sweet, clean, and tender story about the love and respect that develops between Noel Painter, a twenty year old girl in Virginia City, Nevada, and Michael Cowan, a newly ordained minister, son of a wealthy and prominent South Carolina plantation owner.
When the pastor of a small church passed away, he left three daughters, Noel, Holly...

A collection of four of the most popular ebooks in the New Montana Brides Series. These are all historical western romance fiction ebooks. They are set in the 1860-1880 time frame in the 1860-1880 timeframe.
The Civil War decimated the male population ages eighteen through thirty in both the North and the South. At the same time, the miners...

This is a clean, sweet, historical western romance. It is a novella of approximately 24,000 words set in the 1870-1880’s. Beau Pinckney, is not looking for romance. He has been tasked by President Andrew Johnson to investigate the mysterious death of a prominent California rancher and a personal friend.. The other part of the assignment is to...

A set of four complete western romance ebooks. A new updated version with duplicate text removed and the complete text of Texas Oil Man’s Bride added has just published.They are also classified as historical fiction with the locations and facts verified. Two of the books are set in Cheyenne, Wyoming; one is in Helena, Montana; and the fourth is...

A collection of six of the most popular ebooks in the New Mail Order Brides Series. These are all historical western romance fiction ebooks. They are set in the 1860-1880 time frame. five of them are set in Wyoming, the other is in Grapevine, Tx.
The Civil War decimated the male population ages eighteen through thirty in both the North and the...

Bad things happen to good people…
Emily Wells lost her father to pneumonia when she was seven. She had to move from her home in Helena to live with her grandparents,
There had been a growing tension between her parents over financial matters, Her mother was a teacher and her father worked for the railroad. When rail construction ended in Helena,...

When the cadets from the Citadel fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, it ignited one of the costliest conflicts in the history of the United States
The patriotism of the Southern youth was exceeded only by their confidence in an ultimate Southern victory. Indeed, many promised to bring the North to its collective knees in a matter of weeks....

This is the story of Brian, one of the ten Pinckney brothers of Charleston. Brian Pinckney was a captain in the Confederate States of America Army. He was wounded and captured during the battle for Gettysburg. He survived his wounds, and spent the rest of the war in relative comfort as a captured officer. He harbored a heavy guilt feeling...

This is the story of Brent, one of the ten Pinckney brothers of Charleston, While he was in San Francisco to attend the wedding of his brother Ben to Emily, two things happened that would change his life forever.
The first event was the firing on Fort Sumter, and South Carolina’s secession from the Union.
The second life changing event was the...

This is a novella of approximately 33,000 words. It is a sweet, poignant love story in the western romance genre. It takes place mainly in 1880-1904 time frame. There is a single, tastefully written sexual love scene in Chapter 23, on Sarah and Trace’s wedding night.
The book tells about Sarah Calhoun, a young girl on the Montana frontier, who,...

This is a western romance short story. It is not a novel.
It is the story of a young frontier doctor, following in the footsteps of his father on the old western frontier town of, Helena, Montana.
It is a sequel to The Montana Doctor’s Bride and features the son of Doctor Carter Palmer. Sweethearts in high school, Patrick and Mary Louise Parsons...

This is a western romance short story of just over twenty-two thousand words. The sexual heat level of this book is less than 1 out of 5.
This story is a total departure from any of the previous western romances. There are no sex descriptions in this book that go beyond kisses. Bedroom doors are kept closed.
It is a five part sequel of Amanda’s...

A western romance novella of about 28,000 words
It is set in the 1876 time frame.
In Elmira, New York, Amanda Taylor catches the man who has courted her
for over five years, cheating on her. As a thirty year old school
teacher, she is about to resign herself to the life of a spinster school
teacher, when she chances upon a copy of The Matrimonial...

Charlotte Jenkins is the oldest of four girls, two of which are married. At twenty-five and unmarried in post-Civil War Maryland, her prospects for marriage are dim. When her mother started eyeing widowers and men as old as her father as candidates to be her husband, Lottie decided to take matters into her own hands.
An ad in the Baltimore Sun...

Carter Palmer was a young doctor fresh out of Georgetown University Medical School in Georgetown and a resident program less than two years when the Civil War broke out in 1861. He decided the Army of the Potomac, a division of the Union Army would offer him more experience in the expected short duration of the war than he would gain in several...

The Civil War raged from 1861 to 1865. It decimated an entire American generation of young men. An estimated 750,000 casualties from both sides, with the majority of those from the more populous North. The rural South fatalities are put between 250,000 and 260,000.

An inordinate number of widows were created, in addition to reducing the number...

In Search of Love: The Story Of A Mail Order Bride, is a story of a young couple looking for love. Katerina Hauser, the daughter of German immigrants, lives in Columbus, Ohio. Katerina is pushed hard by her mother to study for the teaching profession. She finishes Columbus Teaching College, which will later be absorbed into the Ohio State...

Mary Cartwright lost her husband, Joshua on the third day of the battle of Gettysburg, days before her twentieth birthday. For the next twelve years, she was a teacher in the public schools of Hagerstown, MD.

Her friend, Minerva shocked the ladies of the Zion Church Ladies Sewing Circle by advertising for a husband, and then going off to Texas...

This is western romance novella about two young people searching for happiness.


Josiah Moore is a twenty two year old man, whose wife died of diphtheria, leaving him with a two year old daughter. He is devastated and not knowing where to turn. Perfection is not good enough for him. He lashes out at everyone, swearing at them and belittling...

The Bible says there is “…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.

Martha Sanders is no stranger to heartbreak. When pneumonia claims her husband, she cries, wears black, and mourns. Now she is ready to put her widow’s weeds away and start a new life. A life with a family. A husband. Children. Luke Hastings.

When...

Mail Order Brides came into being after The War Between The States saw thousands of young men killed, leaving the eastern part of the United States with a severe shortage of eligible young bachelors.
At the same time, there was a shortage of unmarried women on the western frontier. The Matrimonial News was a newspaper specializing in ads placed...

This is a novella and Not a novel. It is a western romance set in the 1870 time frame in the area surrounding the fictional town of Cimmaron, Texas.
The closest known town to Cimmaron is San Antonio.

Trace Atkins was wounded at Gettysburg in the Civil War. When the war ended, he made his way back to the Rocking A ranch in Cimmaron, Texas and...

A western romance novella, about 33,000 words. Jedadiah left his home and the farm his father expected him to take over to seek his fortune in the gold fields of Wyoming. He was a failure mining, and homesteaded a farm outside of Laramie. Under the tutelage of his friend and neighbor, he added to his land holdings. Sustained by the success of...

She came to Laramie as a mail order bride for Will Hastings. As she stepped from the stagecoach, she was grabbed by a drunken cowboy. Her husband-to-be tried to intervene and was gunned down in front of her.

Left with $73 and her husband-to-be face down, and lifeless in the dirt street of Laramie, she was now faced with a choice of returning to...