Honest Westerns filled with dishonest characters
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| The Shopkeeper |
In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his shop in New York City and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. His infatuation with another man’s wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the New York shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. He has interfered with Washburn’s ambitions and this is something the mining tycoon cannot allow to go unpunished.
Pinkertons, hired assassins, and aggrieved bystanders escalate the feud until it pulls in all the moneyed interests and power brokers in the State of Nevada.
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| Leadville |
But in the autumn of 1879, Joseph McAllen asks Dancy for help. Ute renegades have abducted a young girl near Mesa Verde, Colorado, and the Pinkerton captain wants Dancy to join the rescue party.
Surprisingly, the trail doesn't lead into the San Juan Mountains, but to Leadville—a rich mining town teeming with the worst elements of a raw frontier. Before the small team can save the girl, shysters and killers conspire to enrich themselves from the incident. Bitter feuds, vendettas, and greed turn the rescue into a bloody conflict that spans the state.
Surprisingly, the trail doesn't lead into the San Juan Mountains, but to Leadville—a rich mining town teeming with the worst elements of a raw frontier. Before the small team can save the girl, shysters and killers conspire to enrich themselves from the incident. Bitter feuds, vendettas, and greed turn the rescue into a bloody conflict that spans the state.
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| Murder at Thumb Butte |
The Return
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| The Return |
It’s the summer of
1880, and Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulb is poised to put the gaslight
industry out of business. Knowing a good business opportunity, former New York
shopkeeper Steve Dancy sets out to obtain a license for Edison’s electric lamp.
Edison agrees, under one condition: Dancy and his friends must stop the
saboteurs who are disrupting his electrification of Wall Street.
After two years of
misadventures out West, the assignment appears to be right up his alley. But
new troubles await him in New York City. Dancy has brought a woman with him,
and his high-society family disapproves. More worrisome, he has also
unknowingly dragged along a feud that began out West. The feud could cost him
Edison’s backing … and possibly his life.
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| Jenny's Revenge |
Jenny Bolton has plans, and they don’t bode well for Steve
Dancy.
Married at fifteen to a Nevada politician, Jenny suffered
repeated assaults, witnessed her husband's ghastly murder, buried her vile
mother-in-law, and killed a man. Dancy, who had once served as her paladin,
rejected her without as much as a goodbye. Abandoned on a raw frontier, she's
single-handedly building an empire that spans the state. Despite her triumphs,
she feels she never should have been left alone.
Soon to marry, Steve is eager to begin a new life unaware
that Jenny is mad for revenge.
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Crossing the Animas
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| Crossing the Animas |
“Ben Law is tough… and mean. He enjoys taking care of
problems for his boss. He won’t just verbally assault you. He and his men will
hurt you. Bad.”
Steve Dancy is about to find this out. With his new home in
Durango, Colorado, the kind with a nice white picket fence, and marriage on the
horizon, the last thing Dancy wants is trouble. Especially with a mining tycoon
and his henchmen. But this is the frontier … and sometimes a feud finds you.
Sometimes, it even chases you. When the quarrel endangers Dancy’s fiancée and
friends, he has no choice but to fight.
And this is a fight Dancy must win.
No Peace
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| No Peace |
After marriage, Steve Dancy has quietly settled in San Diego. He can hardly remember his days of wanderlust, and he’s grateful to have left behind the violence of a raw frontier. In a celebratory mood, Steve invites his mother to a meet her new grandchild in a chic resort in Monterey, California. With the delivery of a handwritten note, his world suddenly reverts to the savagery of his bygone days.
There will be no peace.
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Tempest at Dawn
The real story of our nation's founding.
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| Tempest at Dawn |
Fifty-five men came to Philadelphia May of 1787with a congressional charter to revise the Articles of Confederation. Instead they founded the longest lasting republic in world history.
Tempest at Dawn tells their story.
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When a rich Santa Barbara collector acquires a newly discovered Abraham Lincoln document, he asks detective Greg Evarts and UCLA professor Patricia Baldwin to authenticate it. Their research launches them into a dangerous struggle with a secret society formed during Reconstruction. Before they can solve the mystery surrounding the Lincoln manuscript, a shocking murder forces them to run for their lives.
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Deluge
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| The Shut Mouth Society |
As they race across the country, they discover a Civil War secret that could upset the balance of power in North America. Now Evarts and Baldwin must unravel the 150-year-old conspiracy before it’s too late … and before they are silenced for good.
Deluge
Natural
disaster, street gangs and bad politics … but that isn’t the scary part.
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| Deluge |
In 1862, a
sixty-five day downpour pummeled the western United States. California suffered
the brunt of the storm. Almost a third of the state was under water, roads were
impassible, telegraph lines down, rivers overflowed, hundreds of people died,
and hundreds of thousands of animals drowned. Sacramento remained under water
for six months, forcing the state government to move to San Francisco. Geological evidence
shows that a flood of this magnitude hits California every one to two hundred
years.
When will it happen
again?
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| Templar Reprisals |
Nonfiction__________________________________________________
Principled Action
Lessons from the Origins of the American Republic
Prior to 1776, world
history was primarily written about kings and emperors. The American experiment
shook the world. Not only did the colonies break away from the biggest and most
powerful empire in history, they took the musings of the brightest thinkers of
the Enlightenment and implemented them. The Founding of the United States was
simultaneously an armed rebellion against tyranny and a revolution of
ideas—ideas that changed the course of world history. Principled Action shows how the Founders built this great nation
with sacrifice, courage, and steadfast principles.
Principled Action
Lessons from the Origins of the American Republic
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| Principled Action |
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Participated as one of the researchers and draft writers for Beck's Being George Washington and Miracles and Massacres.
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| Draft Writer & Book Consultant |
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