Gary McCarthy

Bruin Henry's not proud of the life he's led. Robbing stagecoaches cost him the love of his daughter. Along the way, he's been blamed for worse crimes - namely, cold-blooded murder....

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....

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

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

Two Colorado cowboys searching for strayed cattle during a harsh snow storm discover the remains of an ancient city built into the side of a huge cliff....

Henry Wallace is the son of a prominent physician in late 1800's Boston; it's the last quarter of college before graduation. But Henry never graduates....

For young Quinn Wallace, reaching the land called Yellowstone was a quest he would rather die for than abandon....

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....

When Rebel Morgan was the law, Bodie, California, had been a town of hope and promise. It was now "the wildest town in the west"....

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

Burly, broad-shouldered Isaac Beard is the living embodiment of the mountain code. To survive, he will have to fight his way to a safe haven near Spirit Lake....

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....

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

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....

John Augustus Sutter came to the wide and wild California country to build an empire....

Irish immigrant Michael Callahan gets the gold fever and stakes a claim in California. Just when persistence and ingenuity finally payoff, he is jumped by thieves intent upon taking his gold and his life....

On the vast and indescribably beautiful South Rim of the Grand Canyon, a young Hualapai boy faces a bleak future in 1902....

It's hard-rock mining and rock-hard brawling as the Derby Man takes on a boom town....

Stripped of his rank for marrying an Indian girl, Lieutenant Anton Rostov is cast into a North California river wilderness....

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