Lieutenant Jefferson Travis counted heavily on going by the book since it was his first command. But the book didn't cover the impossible situations -- and the army specialized in the impossible. And that called for the kind of guts and integrity tha...
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A ruthless gang of toughs has been running roughshod over the citizens of Bonanza, and bodies are piling up: one dead mayor, two dead marshals and way too many dead miners. Adam Collier has been a fighter all his life, first in the army and then agai...
Captain Rickert was tough. Flatly, he told the new recruits in the Texas Rangers: "You will be paid forty dollars a month. You will provide your own clothes, guns, ammunition, horse, saddle, and you'll feed yourself."...
Lieutenant Linus McCaffey was a determined and efficient young man with ambition, humour, a brand new wife and a great deal of courage. The combination proved to be an explosive one - especially when it came to rebuilding a fort in the heart of Apach...
The U.S. Army didn't quite know what to do with Captain John Early. But he would never consider mustering out. So the army's plan was to get him out of the way. They assigned him to camp Sheridan - to protect the same Indians he'd been fighting all h...
Anybody could make his own whiskey, and sell it to anyone else except Indians. And of course if you made and sold whiskey across the border in Canada -- specifically in a town going by the unlikely but logical name of Fort Whoop-Up -- why, the U.S. F...
Jim Cardigan and Smoke Purcell had been partners for a number of years. Smoke was a quiet, saving sort of fellow. Cardigan, ten years older and a lot less wise, couldn’t seem to keep himself out of trouble. Every so often he’d get roaring drunk, ...