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After coming home, a bitter love affair then causes Toby to answer Roosevelt's request for help with the plight of American missionaries in China, and they become engulfed in the Boxer Rebellion. Never forgetting his dream of owning a horse ranch, Grounds afterward returns home to Eastern Montana. He ekes out a sparse existence for himself and his family by becoming a bounty hunter - an occupation as deadly as his battles in the various wars America fights during T. S. Grounds' gripping story.

The early 1880s finds Frank and Matthew, with their adopted son, Toby, working to make a stake hunting buffalo on the Montana Plains. They run afoul of Stringer Jack's band of horse thieves as they attempt to start a horse ranch on the Yellowstone River, hoping to sell mounts to Fort Keogh's cavalry. Lloyd's novel contains historical facts as accurately portrayed as possible, while still a work of fiction full of interesting characters and the use of vintage firearms such as the old Sharps rifles, Henry rifles, and the colt pistol.

Ben Hite, veteran of the recent Civil War, former member of Berdan's sniper Regiment, ventures west to the Montana gold fields searching for prosperity and a new life. While working his claim, he becomes embroiled in the looming struggle against the organized lawless element which is preying upon the miners. He also becomes responsible for a group of orphaned children, who desperately cling to the man who rescued them from death in the fierce Montana winter.

After Ben's death at the hands of the Danites, his family and old partners are bent on revenge, and with the help of their Crows, they follow the trail of the murderers into the Mormon stronghold. There, the old Mormon assassin Porter Rockwell and his henchmen are brought to bay, and frontier justice is served out.

Caleb Shaw comes out of the mountains and becomes a riverboat man, working the steamboats on the treacherous Missouri and the mighty Mississippi. It tells the story of Lucian Lambeau, his fat French sidekick, Bulgann, the Russian bosun, and Storm, the little Indian girl rescued by Caleb from the river after a tornado hits an Indian camp. The shanty Irish of St. Louis are depicted, with their bitter gang rivalries.

Ben and his followers trek into the Paiute and Navajo country in an attempt to find a little boy. The youngster is a lost survivor of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, sold into slavery to the Navajos. Together, the Sharpshooters take on Brigham Young's Mormon Militia again, and Young seeks his revenge. It takes all Ben's skills and that of his friends to stay alive while they battle the Danites, savage tribes, and the murderous scalpers along the way.

Fort Sarpy tells the story of the American Fur Company's most dangerous post. The fort was built on the Yellowstone River in 1850 for the trade with the Crow. This audiobook is about Fort Sarpy, the American Fur Company men who dared to build it in the wilderness, and the Crow tribe, who owe their existence to its creation.

Sgt. Print Davis is reluctant to retire his trusted revolver until his MP squad is tasked with participating in the 1911 tests being held by the Army in their quest for a new semi-automatic service pistol. He becomes a convert of the new weapon. Afterward, John Browning, its inventor, gives him the Colt pistol used in the trials. Print carries the gun in combat in Mexico as his regiment chases Pancho Villa, then through World War I and to South America and China.

Lord James Hamilton, a cashiered British Army officer, flees his home country after a series of duels threatens to end his life. He becomes James Palmer, a fur trader in one of the little trading posts far up in the American wilderness among the warring tribes. There, he finds himself fighting for his own survival.

Paris im Juni 1940, Einmarsch der Deutschen Wehrmacht. Inspecteur Eddie Giral, traumatisiert vom Ersten Weltkrieg und mit Leib und Seele Polizist, will gegen alle Widerstände den Mord an vier polnischen Geflüchteten und den Selbstmord eines weiteren Polen aufklären. Die Todesfälle scheinen miteinander in Verbindung zu stehen und ein besonderes Interesse der Wehrmacht zu wecken. Auch die Résistance ist involviert.

Four full-cast adaptations of Rosamund Lehmann’s best-known novels, plus short stories and a bonus programme about her life and work.