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Two outlaws plot the demise of a woman from the past; A gunman is plagued by a passle of ornery cats; An emerging artist threatens the status quo of an old Wyoming camp; A young inventor follows in the footsteps of Thomas Edison and Sherlock Holmes. Owlhoots and heroes. Whit Branham and The DaVinci Kid. A Spur Award-winning story and other acclaimed favorites take readers to the small towns and wide open range of the old west.

“Stories distinguished by humor, irony, crisp language use, and a vivid sense of setting.”–John D. Nesbitt, Death at Cantera

The Scalper

Ole Brody is anticipating the 75th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash The gov’ment has renamed UFOs as UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) but they’re the same thing. You can quote me around the campfire on that.

You might think UFOs are something recent. One of the strangest encounters of the aerial kind happened in another New Mexico town. Lamy. (The NM terminus of the AT&SF–the train doesn’t go to Santa Fe. It goes to Lamy but is still called the AT&SF. Like most things in New Mexico this makes no sense.)

But about the 1880 UFO. Chinese? Japanese?  Martian?
Read about it here and tell Ole Brody what you think.

From Book 1: The day the Yankees came and took everything from wealthy landowner Vincent Bayonne was a day he’d never forget—how could he live with the uncertainty of not knowing what happened to his wife and children? Forced to watch as his plantation was burned to the ground by one of the slaves, Bayonne has sunk to the bottom of the barrel. A drunkard who has only his consuming hatred to sustain him, he makes his way from Louisiana to San Francisco, barely managing to survive on the Barbary Coast.

Just when he thinks he has nothing to live for, he discovers that William Sherman, the former slave who torched his home, is alive and well—and Sherman bears a hatred for his former master to match Bayonne’s. When Sherman bests Bayonne in a fight, the once-wealthy Southerner wakes up in a coffin, prepared for a fate he could never have imagined. Hatred fuels Bayonne’s survival, but Sherman has cursed his nemesis with powerful voodoo magic that dooms him to an eternity of only half-living in the twilight existence of a zombie. Can an old Chinese herbalist provide the answers Bayonne needs to survive in the world of the UNDEAD?

The Punished Series

A common question asked by readers is “Where’d that come from?” “That” is usually meant to be the idea for a story rather than something like a canker sore on the tip of my nose. At least, I think that’s so.

GUNSMOKE AND ICE has shootouts and bank robberies and double-dealing intrigue thanks to Allister Legende and the Society of Buckhorn and Bison (they always poke their snouts into the simplest of crimes, only this one is deadly and political). But a part of the background might seem peculiar.

Ice. Back in the day keeping things cold was hard. No freezer. No refrigerator. Hardly an ice box. Tombstone, AZ was supplied by ice shipments from high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains until companies built their own ice making plants nearby.

This story is about one final ice shipment, but if you want to read more how ice was manufactured then (other than chipping it out of a frozen mountain lake).

CLICK HERE to take a gander at this article.

And enjoy GUNS OF LEGENDE #3: GUNSMOKE AND ICE.