Frank Roderus

"He came all the way from Pennsylvania to be a cowboy, and stepped off the train in a a freshly bought Western outfit. It was no surprise that he became the butt of jokes in the local bar. What was surprising was that he made no attempt to fight back. He gained two things that day--his name, the "Keystone Kid, " and his reputation as a coward. Once someone helped him learn the ropes, he took on the look and ways of a true cowhand. But there was still...

Harrison Wilke, hero of Leaving Kansas and Reaching Colorado, is working for a bank--and engaged to his boss's daughter--when he learns that he has inherited a gold mine in Nevada--which changes his outlook on things.

This sequel to Leaving Kansas continues the misadventures of Harrison Wilke, an unlikely hero who is a green kid fumbling his way to manhood in the Old West--if his mistakes don't get him killed first.

Charlie Roy and pale, skinny Sir Arthur, an English gentleman, arrive at the Crown B ranch north of Cheyenne which is owned by the Sir's sister, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was widowed the past winter, and left with a ranch that lost nearly all its beef stock from the brutal 86'-87' winter freeze. Additionally, Elizabeth's dead husband's former partner, Justin Harper, is hell-bent on taking over her ranch. But what Harper and his boys don't figure on is...

Cowboy thought he was going to get a chance to buy the land that he had worked and saved so long for, but instead he ends up trying to help the original owner of the Triple X Ranch save her land from unscrupulous speculators.

When he sets out to clear the names of his father and brother who had been hung as cattle thieves years before, Cyrus Tetlow finds his own life in danger.

A first-person account of the life of an outlaw from his first killing when he was still a teenager through his life as a hardened criminal--all the time feeling himself in the right.