The Story....... Doctor Brad Kelly, while woolgathering, was riding along the river. He had to make an existential decision as he saw a nude woman trying to stay afloat with a rushing wall of mud on her tail from a likely dam blow-out. Reacting quickly he was able to pull the drowning gal to shore. After spending two days getting acquainted, he told the gal he was a physician and came to town to open up a hospital. After a week of an accelerated romance, the two got married and then headed to a medical center for extra training—Brad in surgery, and Addie in nursing. The Duo then went thru some grueling hoops of study, work, and lack of sleep. Addie excelled and quickly advanced from ward RN to OR nurse, and then to a surgeon’s assistant level. Brad was a natural talent and quickly mastered the surgical techniques and became an attending surgeon prematurely. While in training their hospital was getting built and after making friends with other couples in training they all made their way back to 1905 Texas to set up their practices. With years of growing pains, the golden years were upon the group till they ran into WW1 which took one of their surgeons out of practice for the war’s duration. During the war, realizing that a pandemic was looming, the Duo built a new wing to care for influenza victims. The treatment they gave saved but 4% of the sickest patients. Entering the Roaring 20’s, the hospital and its doctors flourished as three doctors went back into training to learn specialties in orthopedics, urology, and vascular surgery. It was also the time for the Kelly kids and their spouses to be in medical and surgical training. It was after the stock market crash of 1929 that the next generation of Kellys would bring the hospital thru the depression and into the future.
The Story....... When the next generation of doctors arrived in the early 30s, they spent a few years getting settled in—getting to know the patients, the hospital, the other doctors, and spent time demonstrating their abilities and reliability. Then the polio epidemic was upon them. Fortunately the two lady doctors had volunteered in the Dallas Polio Center with emphasis on the breathing room where polio victims could not maintain their breathing because of paralyzed intercostal and diaphragm muscles. To the rescue, ‘The Iron Lung.’ The time spent explaining what polio was and what it did to the human body was enlightening. More than that, explaining how the ‘iron lung’ worked was revealing for this was a miracle treatment of an otherwise fatal and inhumane disease—no one should die of suffocation. The remainder of the story deals with differing methods the hospital administrators devised to guarantee the hospital’s survival. That included being certified as a regional medical center, adding several new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, and becoming an official medical school outlying training center. In summary, the way medicine evolved and dealt with an incredible epidemic was in itself rewarding. However, how the characters changed throughout the fifty years is well presented to make this story ‘a keeper.’
This book extends the cowboy era from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. After a profitable but dangerous time as a railroad marshal, Sam returns to his hometown and marries his old high school classmate and friend—and proves that friends can be lovers. Working together, they bought a five man shop and built it up to a factory with 150 mixed men and women workers. They started building brass cartridges, designed a loading press, started making loaded ammo, and joined the revolution in handguns—the semi-automatic pistol.
The Story....... The story starts as a ‘burnt-out’ bounty hunter and a ‘floundering’ waitress find each other. After a week of stepping out, they fall in love. Realizing they had both been lifelong ‘range rats,’ the two set out to build a business out of reloading once fired brass. Needing a prototype automatic machine to sort and load ammo, they went to Salt Lake City to learn how to operate such machines. Concurrently they made friends with three other couples in similar training classes. After one month, they returned to Denver to purchase a building, renovate it, purchase houses for their friends’ housing, and arranged for the automated sorters and reloaders to be installed. With their six friends as essential workers, the factory was producing 220,000 loaded rounds per week and turned out some incredible profits till things came to a halt with the impending WWI. Electing not to be commandeered but to work with the War Department, the business prospered making 30-06 rifle and 45 ACP pistol ammo. With the end of the war in 1917, the business went thru the 1918 Influenza pandemic and was closed for months. After that, the business flourished during the Roaring 20’s till the Stock Market crash of 1929. The business again closed during the Great Depression till the late 1930’s in preparation for WWII. After that war, the Duo now in their late 50’s and wealthy, passed the business to their son and daughter.
This current book is a work of Western fiction circa 1880s. It follows the development of a young man from his early years to a full-fledged rancher. After a career change, he became a deputy sheriff and an occasional bounty hunter. Because of his special gifts, he became a paladin bounty hunter, capturing the worst evil murderers and bringing them to justice—dead or alive. After marrying a modern schoolteacher, he settled down on the family ranch and converted it to a commercial crop harvesting enterprise, using the implements of the times. The story provides the modern day-to-day experiences of those living in the American West during the 1880s, before the industrial revolution. It has plenty of gunplay, romance, and action to keep all readers of Western fiction interested to the end.
This story is about a retired man who, looking for a hobby, gets introduced to cowboy action shooting. It traces his training sessions by an experienced shooter, with whom he enters into a romantic relationship. They traveled to different cowboy shooting locations and started traveling out West. They visited several national parks, monuments, and many popular tourist attractions over six Western states. This book will appeal to the general public. It contains many comical situations between the major characters and cowboy shooters. In short, it provides a realistic exposure to a second life.
The author is a retired medical doctor who shares his retirement with his wife of 51 years. Summers are spent in Vermont with their children and families, and winters in the Texas Rio Grande Valley with friends. This author enjoys writing about the modernizing and changing times of the Western culture before the 1900’s. Like his other Western fictions, he incorporates plenty of gun action during violent times, as well as adding a twist to every story.
This is the 9th book in this series depicting life on the western front, after railroads and inside plumbing but before the automobile and the industrial revolution. The first half of this book, like his others, depicts the hard and dangerous life of a bounty hunter turned US Marshal. The second half covers his newfound romantic life and an early retirement from ‘living by the gun.’ The new Duo delves into raising horses for riding, working, racing, and raising crops to feed these 300 horses. There is plenty of action, intrigue, romance, historical facts for the gun and horse lovers and anyone who enjoys a darn good story.
This story covers Cal’s early years as a bounty hunter in 1880, followed by a period as a special Deputy US Marshal. During these times, he starts his victims fund to support the victims of violent crimes. While on assignment to protect a victimized widow, he falls in love and marries. Over the next year, they develop three business ventures—a sheep farm, a commercial crop enterprise, and a private security agency. Throughout these times, the story provides action, cowboy shooting, romance, and business specifics. The book will appeal to all genders, ages, and especially to enthusiasts who like the late years in the Old West, before the 1900s.
This book covers the story of two Texans from different backgrounds during the 1880s—Max, a successful bounty hunter and now a legendary savior of kidnapped women, and Sylvia, an olericulturist at heart who moves to South Texas to enjoy a year-round growing season. The two meet, and in no time, they are both in for the fight of their lives. When the trauma resolves, they fall in love and delve in the development of a national brand of canned vegetables. The story is spread over a generational time frame. It’s a fast-moving cowboy action and romance with informative interludes—to explain the growing and marketing of vegetables into the nineteenth century. This is Western fiction that will appeal to all Western readers.
This book, like my other Western fiction books circa 1890’s, is my first sequel. It follows the primary story of Jake and Hannah Harrison. Jake is a US Marshal who changes his destiny to become a progressive rancher, develops a crossbreed herd, starts a large crop enterprise, and becomes an oil baron. Hannah is an old chicken farmer who becomes a writer of Western fiction and joins Jake in his many endeavors. There is plenty of action, shooting, intrigue, romance and interconnected by-lines. It will interest all of my readers who enjoy reading about the old west before the industrial revolution.
Like his other publications, this book follows a story line that ranges from the early years, the lawman or bounty hunting years, finding a soulmate, and settling down after they hang-up their guns. A dynamic couple goes on the trail to rescue kidnapped victims in the Colorado mining districts. After putting an end to organized abduction of rich miner’s wives, they settle down and follow their lifelong dream—establishing a crop farm and a gold mine.
This book takes place in the late 1880’s with half of the book covering bounty hunting by three men who travel from capers by railroad travel. There is plenty of shooting and western adventure. As is common, the hero makes contact with an old classmate and falls in love. The last portion of the book covers the commercial raising of hogs for pork meat with the advent of refrigeration and the tin can. The entrepreneurship is well explained—as life was a century ago.
Sam Balinger was raised on a Texas cattle ranch, but his love of ‘mechanical things’ drove him to work in a gun shop that specialized in fabricating small gun parts. After moving on, he worked as a railroad detective and amassed a small fortune from collecting bounties on the outlaws he brought to justice. Falling in love with a friend from high school, the couple trained for eight months in a Texas applied science college. Returning to Dallas, the Duo bought a metal machine shop, and converted it to a brass cartridge fabrication plant and an ammo loading center. There is plenty of gunfights, jungle warfare, romance, and American ingenuity. The message is “friends can become lovers and build a future.”
Paladin Duos is another fiction that presents the dangers and life- style of bounty hunters. In this book, the bounty hunter takes a partner, a woman who quickly becomes an equal. After several escapades, the ultimate caper takes the heroine into undercover. After a long period on the trail the inevitable occurs. The duo decides to retire and start two business enterprises. The businesses described show another form of entrepreneurship for the times. The book has gunfights, adventure, romance and the intrigue of starting a business in the 1880’s.
This publication is an informative guide book on reloading to include equipment and accessories used as tools of the trade. It also includes my extensive experiences as a reloader of approximately three hundred thousand rounds during the past thirty-five years. The book covers fourteen chapters with a major emphasis on Dillon reloading equipment and its many accessories. It does include discussions on other products from major manufacturers. Other chapters mention such subjects as reloading dies, primers, new pistol powders, reloading the 9mm, plated/coated/moly bullets, special topics, FAQs, and the Ruger American Pistol reviews with my experience loading for this firearm. This book is not an A to Z manual on how to begin reloading. It is a highly referenced publication that is written for all working reloaders who want to learn more usable info and wish to develop a lifelong hobbypractical volume reloading.
Unlike his many books on bounty hunting and lawmen, the main character develops an agency specializing in security, protection and investigations. While working for his customers, he amasses a small fortune. In a short time, he met a woman who became his friend, partner and eventually his lover. Together they built their financial empire. This led to buying a silver/gold mine and opening a retail emporium. It has plenty of shooting, action, comedy, romance and detailed explanations involving underground mining as well as establishing a retail enterprise.
The Story........ A wagon train hired US Marshall and a college trained agronomist decide to play the part of a married couple to allow a single female an easier passage to the 1000 miles to Idaho. For weeks they learned how life was on a wagon train as Cole worked as a scout looking for known outlaw gangs. Each night Tess would present the facts about growing vegetables, especially potatoes in Idaho, as Cole saw the end of wagon trains, and got interested in vegetable farming. At the same time, the Duo fell in love. After finally bringing the Barber gang to justice, The Duo made plans to leave the train. Having made friends with the Pulaskis, a family of farmers with four teenage boys, they hired them to operate their farm in Idaho once they arrived. To prepare for their arrival, the Duo took the train and covered the last 500 miles in 24 hours. Once there they bought a ranch with buildings and land. They then purchased workhorses, implements, old manure piles; as they arranged for building a hay, implement, and potato shed. When the Pulaskis arrived in mid-July, they were given the goal of cultivating and fertilizing 400 acres out of harvested hay fields by Oct 1st. By April 1st they planted potatoes, sugar beets, carrots, onions, and turnips. After a summer of maintaining the crops, the fall harvest arrived. Over the years, they expanded the crop acreage and became wealthy, as all their workers prospered and the next generation stayed on.
The Story.......... Ray ‘Coop’ Cooper had been a bounty hunter for two years, but now after losing his partner to a medical condition, he considered putting his guns up since he no longer had a backup. In the midst of his last caper, his life was saved by a woman and a dog. After much haggling, the gal convinced him to take her on as his backup. After several successful capers, Ray saw the need to protect this impish gal called Elle—double E double L. Seeing the need for stability, the Duo purchased a gun-shop and spent time promoting it. Coop came to a realistic awareness that bounty hunting was too dangerous for a family man, and the slow pace of a gun-shop was not his style. It was serendipity when a neighbor convinced them to purchase a 2,500-acre woodlot, set up a state-of-the-are sawmill, get some training, and become millionaires in eight years. After a month of training in Houston, they returned with four friends, and proceeded to set up a sawmill. After growing woes and making changes, the team became proficient. In time they added a kiln, then enlarged it, added a planer, and organized the first known sawmill ‘open house’ to promote and sell their quality products.
This current book is a work of Western fiction circa 1880s. It follows the development of a young man from his early years to a full-fledged rancher. After a career change, he became a deputy sheriff and an occasional bounty hunter. Because of his special gifts, he became a paladin bounty hunter, capturing the worst evil murderers and bringing them to justice—dead or alive. After marrying a modern schoolteacher, he settled down on the family ranch and converted it to a commercial crop harvesting enterprise, using the implements of the times. The story provides the modern day-to-day experiences of those living in the American West during the 1880s, before the industrial revolution. It has plenty of gunplay, romance, and action to keep all readers of Western fiction interested to the end.
The book is a 12 year summary of memoirs, facts and events leading to a totally encompassing hobby and the development of a popular shooting sport-Cowboy Action Shooting. The author covers subjects to include Shooting Accessories, Firearm Modifications, Reloading, Dedicated Practice, a typical day at a CAS and others covered in 14 chapters. The book is written for the general public, novice, beginner, the experienced shooter and the retiree looking for a hobby. It is a nonfiction guide book that exposes all the facets of cowboy shooting and includes the state of the art and modern approaches to the sport.
This publication is a nonfiction guidebook that covers the introductory caliber into the big bore world.44 magnum. It also highlights a great single action revolverthe Ruger Super Blackhawk Bisley Hunter. The book covers years of accumulating shooting issues from magazines, shooting forums, and shooting articles and texts. The fifteen chapters are organized into five groups. Group one presents the features of the SBH-BH and details the check points to cover before finalizing the purchase of a used or new gun. Group two reviews a hands-on approach to an action job and an accurizing method for home gunsmiths. Section three involves the new, modern hard cast bulletsKeith-type SWC, LBT design, and the new wide meplat approach to modern designs. Group four presents multiple stand-alone topics that have been forgotten over time. Group five presents my shooting experience with the .44 magnum SBH-BH. This book is written for all shooting enthusiastswhether beginner, novice, or experienced shooter. Foremost, it is a blueprint for the retiree looking for a hobby.
The Story....... Doctor Brad Kelly, while woolgathering, was riding along the river. He had to make an existential decision as he saw a nude woman trying to stay afloat with a rushing wall of mud on her tail from a likely dam blow-out. Reacting quickly he was able to pull the drowning gal to shore. After spending two days getting acquainted, he told the gal he was a physician and came to town to open up a hospital. After a week of an accelerated romance, the two got married and then headed to a medical center for extra training—Brad in surgery, and Addie in nursing. The Duo then went thru some grueling hoops of study, work, and lack of sleep. Addie excelled and quickly advanced from ward RN to OR nurse, and then to a surgeon’s assistant level. Brad was a natural talent and quickly mastered the surgical techniques and became an attending surgeon prematurely. While in training their hospital was getting built and after making friends with other couples in training they all made their way back to 1905 Texas to set up their practices. With years of growing pains, the golden years were upon the group till they ran into WW1 which took one of their surgeons out of practice for the war’s duration. During the war, realizing that a pandemic was looming, the Duo built a new wing to care for influenza victims. The treatment they gave saved but 4% of the sickest patients. Entering the Roaring 20’s, the hospital and its doctors flourished as three doctors went back into training to learn specialties in orthopedics, urology, and vascular surgery. It was also the time for the Kelly kids and their spouses to be in medical and surgical training. It was after the stock market crash of 1929 that the next generation of Kellys would bring the hospital thru the depression and into the future.
The Story....... When the next generation of doctors arrived in the early 30s, they spent a few years getting settled in—getting to know the patients, the hospital, the other doctors, and spent time demonstrating their abilities and reliability. Then the polio epidemic was upon them. Fortunately the two lady doctors had volunteered in the Dallas Polio Center with emphasis on the breathing room where polio victims could not maintain their breathing because of paralyzed intercostal and diaphragm muscles. To the rescue, ‘The Iron Lung.’ The time spent explaining what polio was and what it did to the human body was enlightening. More than that, explaining how the ‘iron lung’ worked was revealing for this was a miracle treatment of an otherwise fatal and inhumane disease—no one should die of suffocation. The remainder of the story deals with differing methods the hospital administrators devised to guarantee the hospital’s survival. That included being certified as a regional medical center, adding several new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, and becoming an official medical school outlying training center. In summary, the way medicine evolved and dealt with an incredible epidemic was in itself rewarding. However, how the characters changed throughout the fifty years is well presented to make this story ‘a keeper.’
The book is a 12 year summary of memoirs, facts and events leading to a totally encompassing hobby and the development of a popular shooting sport-Cowboy Action Shooting. The author covers subjects to include Shooting Accessories, Firearm Modifications, Reloading, Dedicated Practice, a typical day at a CAS and others covered in 14 chapters. The book is written for the general public, novice, beginner, the experienced shooter and the retiree looking for a hobby. It is a nonfiction guide book that exposes all the facets of cowboy shooting and includes the state of the art and modern approaches to the sport.
This book, like my other Western fiction books circa 1890’s, is my first sequel. It follows the primary story of Jake and Hannah Harrison. Jake is a US Marshal who changes his destiny to become a progressive rancher, develops a crossbreed herd, starts a large crop enterprise, and becomes an oil baron. Hannah is an old chicken farmer who becomes a writer of Western fiction and joins Jake in his many endeavors. There is plenty of action, shooting, intrigue, romance and interconnected by-lines. It will interest all of my readers who enjoy reading about the old west before the industrial revolution.
This publication is an informative guide book on reloading to include equipment and accessories used as tools of the trade. It also includes my extensive experiences as a reloader of approximately three hundred thousand rounds during the past thirty-five years. The book covers fourteen chapters with a major emphasis on Dillon reloading equipment and its many accessories. It does include discussions on other products from major manufacturers. Other chapters mention such subjects as reloading dies, primers, new pistol powders, reloading the 9mm, plated/coated/moly bullets, special topics, FAQs, and the Ruger American Pistol reviews with my experience loading for this firearm. This book is not an A to Z manual on how to begin reloading. It is a highly referenced publication that is written for all working reloaders who want to learn more usable info and wish to develop a lifelong hobbypractical volume reloading.
This story covers Cal’s early years as a bounty hunter in 1880, followed by a period as a special Deputy US Marshal. During these times, he starts his victims fund to support the victims of violent crimes. While on assignment to protect a victimized widow, he falls in love and marries. Over the next year, they develop three business ventures—a sheep farm, a commercial crop enterprise, and a private security agency. Throughout these times, the story provides action, cowboy shooting, romance, and business specifics. The book will appeal to all genders, ages, and especially to enthusiasts who like the late years in the Old West, before the 1900s.
Paladin Duos is another fiction that presents the dangers and life- style of bounty hunters. In this book, the bounty hunter takes a partner, a woman who quickly becomes an equal. After several escapades, the ultimate caper takes the heroine into undercover. After a long period on the trail the inevitable occurs. The duo decides to retire and start two business enterprises. The businesses described show another form of entrepreneurship for the times. The book has gunfights, adventure, romance and the intrigue of starting a business in the 1880’s.
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