Dreams to Dust:  A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush, University of Oklahoma Press.

"Winner of the Langum Prize for excellence in American Historical Fiction
for 2006."

"Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award for 2006."

 The story of a young half-breed Indian who returns to the Oklahoma Territory in the 1889 Land Rush to make his fortune at Guthrie station.  On that day ten thousand strangers poured into a single townsite.  These were not just homesteaders looking for land, but people drawn from all walks of life, all searching for something:  money, adventure, a new way of life.  But in the end it was a bargain too good to be true.  It was a town born in a day, a town which died as it was born. 

(Designated as an Official Centennial Project by the Oklahoma Centennial Commission) To Buy  www.oupress.com

Requiem at Dawn, Pinnacle Books, 2000

 “They called it Fort Supply, the last outpost of the U.S. Army on the boundary of Oklahoma Territory—home to the damned, the disgraced, and the dispirited.  Now, Doc McReynolds, a military surgeon who fought his way out of a bloody killing field, has been ordered to establish a redoubt at Cimarron Crossing.”

 (Finalist for Best Original Paperback in the Western Writers of America Awards Competition)

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The Savage Trail, Pinnacle Books, 1998

 “A towering novel filled with a new vision of the American frontier, THE SAVAGE TRAIL is a magnificent saga of courage, told in blood:  a gritty tale of men and women who matched their bodies and souls against a land that would set them free, or destroy them all.”
 

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Empire, Evans Publications, Inc., 1993

“Doug Ryan, discouraged with the city and a failed romance, takes a teaching job in the small railroad town of Monarch, Oklahoma.  It is here in this sleepy town that a tale of intrigue, romance and murder begins.”

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