There is a kind of honesty that costs something. Not the easy kind, where telling the truth puts you at…
Nobody in Caldwell Flats could explain why James Harvelle stayed. They had all watched men try before. Men with better…
The winter of 1881 arrived in Montana like a merciless enemy. The wind howled across the frozen valley carrying snow…
Hank Bellows planted himself in front of Garrett Callaway’s four children like a wall of stone, and he did not…
The morning Vernon Blackwell rode onto Iron Ridge Ranch. He wasn’t there to talk. He pulled his horse to a…
Wyoming Territory, >> >> late 1887. The valley was still recovering from the great die-up. The wind did not just…
The first thing anyone in Cedar Hollow noticed about Faye Westbrook was that she never said a word. Not to…
The town hadn’t shown up on any map printed in the last 10 years. And every account the old man…
The train set her down in Rollins on a gray afternoon in November, and the wind off the flats hit…
A wall of black cloud rolled across the Wyoming sky so fast that it seemed to swallow the afternoon whole….