Gary McCarthy

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger....

The carefully selected stories in this collection are vibrant proof that the great American West is a fertile ground to storytellers....

The thundering engines of the Central Pacific are stalled in the quest to conquer the mighty Sierras....

Even while the brewing Civil War threatened to tear the country in half North from South, the race was on to bind the country together East to West by railroad....

Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870s....

They were on their way to the richest silver strike in human history. Six people who met in a Sierra blizzard enroute to the infamous Comstock Lode....

Mando Killion's world was shattered by Santa Anna's brutal invasion of Texas....

In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between outlaw and citizen was thinly drawn, two women struggled, fought, and won....

On their way to Colorado, Ruff and Dixie Ballou drive their horses through New Mexico....

In the wake of disaster, the surviving members of the Ballou family sought a new beginning on the Texas Frontier....

Ruff Ballou and his sister Dixie journeyed west with trouble at their heels. But luck is on their side in Rum River, New Mexico, where they race one of their champion thoroughbreds to victory....

The Horseman, is the story of the Ballou family's brave struggle to fulfill a dream....

Haunted by the blood and bitterness of the Civil War, Houston Ballou escaped from Tennessee on the proud stallion High Fire....

To Libby Pike and her family, the Humboldt brought sudden disaster. Stranded with her young daughter, Libby found herself surrounded by hostile renegades....

He is the most cruelly dangerous opponent the Derby Man has ever challenged: Wesley Bryant, now the crime lord of San Francisco....

Darby Buckingham was an unlikely candidate for frontier life....

The hat fit him, the tin star didn't. But when his pal, Sheriff Zeb Cather, was taken out of action, Darby Buckingham started playing lawman to the town of Running Springs, Wyoming....

Our American West, Volume 4 completes this collection of historical stories written by Gary McCarthy....

The Gila River flows gently through the parched Sonoran Desert. Along its banks, fierce Apaches, Pima farmers, Spaniards, and brash Americans all vie for control in a harsh and unforgiving land....

When Darby Buckham's fianceé Dolly Beavers fails to show for their announced wedding, he strikes out for Reno, convinced she must be a victim of foul play....