Featured Westerns

Suspense, humor and a touch of romance await in seven short stories of the American West. In the title story, “The Ranch Next Door,” a cattleman’s young son dreads breaking the news to his family that he has fallen in love with the daughter of a neighboring sheep rancher despite an ancient feud between the two families.

“Big Mo and Spotted Wolf” is a Western short story about two boys (Big Mo a white rancher and Spotted Wolf a half Indian farmer) who become lifetime friends in the old west of the very early 1900s. It is …

From the author of “Preacher” and “The Feather Gang” comes an historically accurate tale of a Pinkerton agent tracking stolen gold and outlaws in the high country of Colorado. This wonderful novel showcases life, danger, and mining in the wild …

This middle-school chapter book takes place in the 1730s– the era when the American Indians of the Northern Plains got their first look at a horse (ponokomita). From accurate research, Cheatham presents a lifestyle that existed thousands of years before …

This novella is set in the 1840s at the end of the Second Seminole War, ON PROMISED LAND details the great American dream of all pioneers who settled the western lands. But these are black pioneers. Black-Seminole: Tru, free-born in the Everglades …

Eddie CloudRunner has been living a relatively normal life, until the dark specter of a dead relative begins dogging his every step. He experiences paranormal knowledge about the lives of several new arrivals in his ranching community of Lamp Creek. …

It’s spring, 1868, and a businessman in Sumner County, Kansas, has been brutally murdered. Not only does Ellen Hargrove find the body, but within days, she believes James Montgomery committed the crime. But how to convince anyone? Her knowledge isn’t …

In 1870, Elizabeth Fortune is more spunky than most young women, but those attributes are often a cover for the despair she feels at being without family. Her white mother died when she was five, and her black-Indian father is …

On December 21st 1866 Red Cloud and a band of Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne warriors defeated a U.S. Army force led by Captain William J. Fetterman. The Fetterman fight ended Red Cloud’s war for control of the Bozeman Trail with …