Frost-crusted his beard like river-ice. He had not spoken to a living soul since October. Hadn’t it needed to, just…
The saloon had gone quiet before. Quiet for gunfights. Quiet for funerals. But it had never gone quiet like this….
Katherine Hathstone had made nine of the gowns in the warmsley assembly rooms that Mikkelmus night. Four of them she…
Everyone laughed at the scullery maid for taking in a limping old beggar woman freezing at the manor gates. They…
Some mornings the Wyoming sky came down so low and gold over Copper Hollow that a man forgot for a…
The announcement came on a Wednesday morning, printed in fresh ink in the society pages, tucked between a notice about…
The foreman said a woman had no business breaking horses. She broke the meanest one he had. The horse was…
A stage coach rolled into the mountain settlement with one passenger everyone pied, one sealed letter no one wanted to…
You’re too old to defend your neighbor’s ranch. >> I’m old, but my Winchester is new. Four riders pulled up…
3 days after her 18th birthday, Vera Ashcom was turned out into the cold wind of the winter of 1885….