Johnny D Boggs

Helping Whip Watson hand-deliver two dozen brides to the silver boom town of Calico, Micah Bishop soon discovers that Whip has some killer competition in the form of a woman named Candy who is determined to get to the town first with her own bevy of beauties.

Micah Bishop doesn't believe in miracles--until a derringer-packing nun busts him out of jail. But it's not Christian charity that's driving Sister Genevieve--she wants Micah to take her to a place called the Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. It was here where an order of nuns met their Maker, and it's Sister Genevieve's mission to see that they are given a proper funeral. Or so she claims. Micah's...

Weather and creaking joints permitting, Jim Hawkins could be found every weekend sitting in the rocker outside the Manix store, whittling and spitting. Jim said hardly anything. Ever. That's how Henry Lancaster felt. Sure, he'd hear his grandfather talk to his grandmother fairly often - But Jim hardly said anything to anybody else. That all changed when he took Henry along on a scouting trip, and told his grandson how it was that winter of 1886 -...

Known as "The Scottish Gun," ex-Texas Ranger Ben Cameron rode into the dying mining town of Purgatoire for a drink--which means that he won't stop until he's good and drunk. Faced with a series of murders, the townspeople of Purgatoire look to Cameron for protection. The question is, can Ben Cameron still deliver?

"A Civil War story about three teens--Caleb, a Missourian who fights for the North; Ryan, a Texian who fights for the south; and Grace, a nurse in Corinth, Mississippi--whose paths intersect around the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Corinth"--

Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for lynching a priest, a crime that shocked all New Mexico Territory. Yet most people believe that Cole, the son of wealthy Senator Roman Cole, will never be executed. Father Virgilio is so convinced that he will escape execution at Chama that he has raised a reward for anyone who will successfully transport the prisoner there. Britton Wade, a gunfighter and gambler, is determined to do just that....

Boggs brings the events and personalities of Little Big Horn to life in a series of first-hand accounts.

"Comanche Tribal Police Sergeant Daniel Killstraight is sent to Fort Worth, Texas, with another Indian-school educated Comanche, Charles Flint, to show off Captain Richard Pratt's Carlisle Industrial School and his theory of "Killing the Indian" to save the man -- i.e., turn the Comanches and other Indians into "white men" by assimilation. Chief Quanah Parker is in Fort Worth, too, mainly to negotiate a new lease agreement with powerful Texas ranchers...