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Becky’s uncles, Ike, Jesse, and Caleb Branson were lawmen in the West. One by one, the Branson brothers left the hills of Missouri and headed west. Ike and Jesse worked their way across the land working as ranch hands, Indian scouts, and finally lawmen. Caleb lost his wife and newborn child, sold his farm, and headed to Texas to try and become a Texas Ranger. Ike and Jesse Branson become deputy US marshals, Ike in New Mexico and Jesse in California.

Rebecca Joan Thacker had just celebrated her 11th birthday when word was received that her father had been killed in the Civil War. She was barely 13 when two bushwhackers dragged her into the barn on the family farm and raped her. The month before her 14th birthday she gave birth to a baby girl. A month prior to her 15th birthday, Becky’s mother died, leaving her all alone to raise a child.

U. S. Marshal James Boutwell stumbles upon the body of a young woman while delivering a prisoner to Dallas. Boutwell gets himself appointed to investigate the murder only to realize that he has bit off more than he can chew. There are several suspects, but no clear cut evidence to connect the murder to anyone. No one has a clear motive, but the woman is dead. Then there is another young woman killed in Fort Worth, adding to the mystery.

The Horsemen continues the saga of the Baxter and Brubaker families with the second generation of individuals. Two Baxter sons enter West Point military academy, the third goes into the ministry, and the Brubaker son joins the Texas Rangers. The adventures of the Baxter and Brubakers are chronicled while moving Cree Indians to Canada, fighting in the Spanish-American and American-Philippine Wars, then their involvement with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, and their efforts to keep the peace on the Texas-Mexico Border during the Mexican Revolution.

The Texican is a fictional account of one man’s experiences during the middle to late 19th century in Texas. Honks Pickens decided to kill two Apache that stole his cattle - an ill-advised decision that led to the Indians killing his family and a series of tit-for-tat vengeful killings that would last for years.

Retribution is a true-to-life western tale about the quest of one man who suffers the loss of his family at the hands of murderers and how he responds to the task of finding the killers and bringing them to justice. Retribution breaks from this cookie-cutter mold and presents a fast-moving, believable rendition of one man’s fulfillment of what he believes to be his honor-bound duty.

When Hannibal Brinks left his boyhood home in Missouri, he was just 16-years-old. He joined a small wagon train headed West. On the way, he met two brothers who were mountain men, and traveled to the Rockies with them. After he leaves, the wagon train encounters Arapaho horse thieves, and is then attacked by a large number of hostiles.

The Colorado Territory is the story of the Bar TC’s move from No Man’s Land in the Indian Territory to Las Animas County in the Colorado Territory. Before the trail drive even starts, Klu saved a white girl from Indians, had a run-in with buffalo hunters, and fought off a group of Comanche. He buys land and files homestead claims for 160 acres for each of the Bar TC crew. While on the trip, he marries Melody Rose Goodwill, the girl he rescued from the Indians. The trail drive from No Man’s Land to Las Animas County is only about fifty-five miles.

Allen Stevens–The Rescues tells the story of rescues in Bosnia, two in Columbia, and other exploits of The Committee and the Green Berets. In Bosnia, the task was to rescue two aircrew members who had been shot down while taking reconnaissance photos. During the attempt, a helicopter and crew were lost and Lieutenant Stevens was forced to avoid capture until she and her operators could be extracted.

Allen Stevens received an invitation for him and his family to visit the California White House. He was informed that he had been selected to be the new director of operations for The Committee. Allen was given a new civil service cover position with the ISA, a newly formed intelligence group. His first task, as director of operations for The Committee, was to put together three teams to coordinate the terminations of the ringleaders of the plot to kill the president. The men, in three different time zones, were terminated at roughly the same time.

Many theologians, Bible scholars, and others have written commentaries on the Old Testament. And almost without exception, they have attempted to explain the intent and spiritual implications represented by the conflicting statements of the ancient writers without taking issue with the content itself. Unholy Dilemma: A Search for Logic in the Old Testament departs from the approach of presuming to divine what the ancient writers meant to say, and merely examines what they actually did say.

The Frontiersman – Massacre at Buffalo Creek, continues Hannibal Brinks and Stumpy Smith saga. As they were delivering cows to the mining camp, Tall Bear and his Arapaho braves attacked them in Drago Canyon. They survive the ambush only to be attack. On their way back to the ranch, five drygulchers try to steal the money from the cattle sale. They survive the attack and meet two men who will become cow hands on their ranch. A young Lieutenant stops at the Circle BS and spends the night with his detail.

Unholy Dilemma 3 – A Search for logic in the Qur’an is a book which deals with the claims, admonitions, scientific errors, conflations, and absurdities that are found in the Islamic Holy Writ. Various Surahs and Ayahs (chapter and verse) are quoted and then examined for clarity of thought and divine inspiration and revelation. As a by-product of the book, the Old and New Testaments are compared to the Qur’an and where noted, the obvious plagiarism of these more ancient documents is noted.

After putting together a large herd of Texas longhorn cattle, Hannibal and Stumpy headed the herd for California. Comancheros kidnapped Hannibal’s wife, Morning Star, to sell in Mexico. Hannibal set out alone to find and return her. Once they had secured Morning Star and other girls' release, Stumpy and Hannibal sold the cattle as planned and headed back to Kansas Territory. Now it was time to build a ranching operation.

Dead Reckoning is the story of Mia Stevens experiences in the Army after completing Special Forces training. On her first mission, one of her operators is killed. When she leads her platoon back into Iraq, she is shot and severely wounded. Allen’s son, JR is kidnapped by Russians who are trying to intimidate Allen into divulging classified information. Edde Franklin, a Committee operator is assigned to assassinate a corrupt Congressman.

Unholy Dilemma 2, a search for logic in the New Testament, was not written to either bolster or undermine one’s faith. Nor is it intended to trash the Bible per se. In fact, neither this book, nor Unholy Dilemma, is exclusively intended for Christian listeners. The Bible is a book like any other book, i.e., a set number of handwritten or printed pages, sewn, stapled, or glued together on one side and bound in a protective cover. The word “Bible” comes from the Greek word biblia, which means “book.”

It is October 1973. The Yom Kipper War is being fought between the Israelis and the forces of Syria and Egypt. The Israel Defense Forces are forbidden to execute enemy combatants. The Committee has no such restrictions. Enter Allen Stevens – The Problem Solver, to do a favor for the Israeli government. After several failed attempts, Allen and his Mossad companions find Akram Al-Masri – a man known as Satan’s Angel by the Israelis. Allen dispatches Al-Masri and goes back home.

The dragon is a symbol of power and strength in Chinese culture, while the eye represents surveillance and espionage. Allen is approached by a Chinese man who threatens his family in order to intimidate him into providing classified information to the Chinese espionage agency. When Allen refuses, assassins are sent to his mountain home to kill his family. Allen and SAD operatives kill the Chinese agent in D.C., and Rawhide grants a sanction for the extermination of the Chinese Embassy official who ordered the killing of Allen’s family.