Gary McCarthy

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger....

Wild mustangs, ghosts on the ranch, gun-toting outlaws and trailblazing cowboys roam the pages...

Two Colorado cowboys searching for strayed cattle during a harsh snow storm discover the remains of an ancient city built into the side of a huge cliff....

In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between outlaw and citizen was thinly drawn, two women struggled, fought, and won....

Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870s....

Mando Killion's world was shattered by Santa Anna's brutal invasion of Texas....

They were on their way to the richest silver strike in human history. Six people who met in a Sierra blizzard enroute to the infamous Comstock Lode....

On their way to Colorado, Ruff and Dixie Ballou drive their horses through New Mexico....

Ruff Ballou and his sister Dixie journeyed west with trouble at their heels. But luck is on their side in Rum River, New Mexico, where they race one of their champion thoroughbreds to victory....

In the wake of disaster, the surviving members of the Ballou family sought a new beginning on the Texas Frontier....

Haunted by the blood and bitterness of the Civil War, Houston Ballou escaped from Tennessee on the proud stallion High Fire....

The Horseman, is the story of the Ballou family's brave struggle to fulfill a dream....

Our American West, Volume 4 completes this collection of historical stories written by Gary McCarthy....

Our American West, Volume 3 is filled with western frontier stories you’ll find entertaining.

In Our American West, Volume 1, discover humor, tragedy, and courage in every one of these delightful stories....

Our American West, Volume 2 begins with America’s first colonizers, the prairie dogs, and how they were so hated by ranchers on the range that they were almost made extinct

The Gila River flows gently through the parched Sonoran Desert. Along its banks, fierce Apaches, Pima farmers, Spaniards, and brash Americans all vie for control in a harsh and unforgiving land....

To Libby Pike and her family, the Humboldt brought sudden disaster. Stranded with her young daughter, Libby found herself surrounded by hostile renegades....

Stripped of his rank for marrying an Indian girl, Lieutenant Anton Rostov is cast into a North California river wilderness....

Burly, broad-shouldered Isaac Beard is the living embodiment of the mountain code. To survive, he will have to fight his way to a safe haven near Spirit Lake....