Bøger af Royal Wade Kimes

If Eugene Bracken could have known the innocent ride he was taking as a favor to his beloved friend Major Owens, he might have not gone. He was about to enter the bowels of hell, and history would add another chapter to the colorful hardness of the West.He and a large posse consisting of United States Marshals of Fort Smith, Arkansas, would be in the deadliest gun battle ever recorded in the journals of American History.They were only going after one man, Zeke Proctor. How could anything go wrong? Yet something would.Zeke Proctor, a Cherokee of Keetoowah belief who also had been a deputy, was known as a fair man, a deadly man, and a resourceful man. But he too was thrown head long into unimaginable events. He hadn't any choice but to take on the Fort Smith Marshals and the United States Government.Zeke was a man with great resolve and wolf like instincts. To catch him was laughable, to cross him was deadly, to like him was easy, to fear him was wisdom, and to know him... no one ever really knew him.

Old Man Smith is sitting on a one thousand acre run down horse ranch that is prime ground. He finds himself in a war to keep it. Both the city of Sedalia Missouri and the Mob in Detroit and New York want it, and both use Eminent Domain as their vehicle to take it. Smith being a World War II Veteran and a sharp shooter in the war is no stranger to war. The Tobin boys who grew up around the old man have their own ranch and side with Smith. Ben Tobin is standing behind Old Man Smith while he's looking towards the city of Sedalia and he says to him. "Ben, I've never been no hand with words, I'm no politician. The only thing I was ever real good with was a gun. I'm just going to fight 'em with what I know. Yeah, Ben, I'll be waiting on those hi-tech sophisticated sunzabitches." The greatest generation in American History has no back down to him, and his principals and values will not waver or bend.Before it's over the eyes of the nation and the world would be on Sedalia Missouri. Old Man Smith is full of surprises and just when you think you have it all figured... well, not so fast, maybe not.

A crudely lettered sign reading "TOWN" marked a narrow road just off the main trail. The sun barely gave light to an entrance to a road that led downward to a ghost town at the bottom of a small canyon. The newly erected sign was surely seen as a welcome to westbound wagons in need of a place to rest and replenish supplies before continuing their long journey. It was not.The new residents, of Town, were the Suggs family. The head of the family was Pa-Dad, who led and ruled with an iron fist, his four sons, a daughter, and Mammy. The male members of the family were crack shots with their fifty caliber rifles. They were ruthless, raping scavengers, murdering and taking from those crossing the Texas Plains by wagon. During one of their murderous attacks Pa-Dad let his horse fall on him and break his leg. This forced Pa-Dad to rethink how to continue their prospering evil ways. The result was their new residence and the sign.What Pa-Dad didn't realize was how quickly the sign would work and who and what it would bring in. Before he was ready for it, 'pilgrims', as he liked to call them were coming in faster than he could shackle or shoot them. And he was finding out that even the best laid plans of mice and men can really get out of hand. His biggest problem was not secondhand stolen money, a retired sheriff, an English countess and her escorts, the daughter of a gunslinging marshal, the woman who escaped one of his raids, or those involved in the previously stolen double eagles numbering in the thousands... it was Kenneth Luker.

Lamplight, Kansas, asked Jubal Tate, a traveling preacher to bring his brush arbor meeting to their town in hopes he might cleanse it of sin that abound. Jubal was once the most feared fighting man the South had known during the Civil War. Once the war was over he began to preach. The folks in Lamplight had no idea what lay ahead or even why. All the unfinished business of the war was living there. Major Bend, Jubal's old commander and his comrades from the war. The last thing they would want, would be Jubal Tate showing up. Major Bend and his boys had committed war crime atrocities that would hang them sure. Jubal and his own comrades didn't go along with any of it. Because of Major Bend, the war for Jubal and the four boys he served with had never ended. Both sides would be in lamplight at the same time. Jubal would turn Major Bend over to the Lord, and try to keep his own men in check if possible. But hell would make a sound from the depths of its bowls the town of Lamplight would not be ready for.