Dana Fuller Ross

Denver! Braving the Rockies and the untamed wilderness, they came to the wild frontier town and watched it explode into a city of fabulous instant wealth. Some were desperate men and women fleeing the mounting turbulence in the East, others were adventurers forsaking the played-out dreams of the California gold fields. They were lured by the most powerful promise of all--bonanza!

Captain Rick Miller leads veteran commander Lee Blake, his wife Kathy, and other brave pioneers who forged the Oregon Trail, to help the new Republic of Texas fight for its life against dangerous outlaws, native tribes, and the powerful Mexican Army.

When the Panic of 1837 creates hard times, a dauntless band of pioneering men and women journey from Long Island to Missouri with the hopes of eventually finding a better future in the rich Oregon Territory.

Violence ignited by the glitter of gold. Men desperate to strike it rich. Families and farms forsaken in a wild rush West to stake a claim. String men and courageous women struggle across an untamed continent to gamble their last dollar in overnight boom towns or die bushwhacked by outlaws. Some become valiant fighters in places where six-shooters keep the peace. No risk is too great, no depravity too low--when men catch gold fever and dream of quick...

Unflagging courage took them through the valleys of the Badlands to the vast priaries of fertile, new territory. The promise of endless fields of golden wheat, great herds of prime beef cattle, fabulous empires built from railroads and mines lured the ambitiousand the brave to the uncharted country. But war cries soon echoed across the plains as mighty red nations united in a pact of blood to fight the newcomers for their sacred hunting grounds.

Only the most daring cross the River of No Return to enter this wild, lawless region. Mountains laden with riches lured prospectors burning with gold fever. Easy money brought ruthless young men with guns for hire. And hidden amid the vast forests of white pine were the war ponies of Shoshoni and Nez Perce--bloodthirsty Indian warriors who gathered to drive the white man from the red man's ancestral home.

Toby Holt wages a war on the dreaded Oriental Tong while men struggle to control the fortunes of New Orleans.

Where ther is no law and order, the renegade will prey on the weak and innocent. West of Yuma, beneath the red sandstone bluffs, the comancheros reigned with brutal terror. A motley crew of savage men, they rode with lust in their hearts and cruelty on their minds. For until brave men rose up to stop them, these desperadoes--like evil doers everywhere--made fear their ally in a battle for the land.

Famous rough-rider Toby Holt battles the wealthy lumber barons of Milwaukee, including a ruthless enemy obsessed with destroying Holt and his enterprise, to build a lumber operation in the forests of Wisconsin.