This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt. -- .

From her ranch home in Montana in the 1920s, Nettie Brady dreamed of joining the rodeo circuit and becoming a star. Defying her mother's wishes and trading her skirts for trousers--and riding the range with her brothers and taking on the occasional half-ton steer in local rodeos--Nettie bucked convention to compete with men in the arena. When family hardship and tragedy threaten her plans, she turns back toward a more traditional life as a ranch woman, but chafes against its restrictions. Then she meets and falls in love with a young neighbor who rides broncs and raises rodeo stock. Can Nettie's rodeo dreams come true if she's also a wife and mother? Based on the life of the author's grandmother, a real Montana cowgirl, this novel takes on the big issues of a woman's place in the west, the crushing difficulties of surviving on a homestead, and the excitement and romance of a young girl aching to follow her dream.

Will is taken captive by a big rancher Major McKinney that wants his land in Colorado. He escapes with the help of the Major's daughter Elizabeth. They are pursued by Major McKinney and his hands to Arizona through Colorado. Liz and Will are married in Meeker, Colorado but later Elizabeth is captured by the Ute Indians while Will is away from camp. Still being chased by McKinney. He has many encounters with the Major and his hands, captured again but escapes and returns to Steamboat, Colorado where he has friends. He searches for Elizabeth but hears she's dead so he returns to Steamboat and goes to California with Bess, a rival of Elizabeth. McKinney hands follow him and catch up with him where there is a gunfight. He returns to Colorado with Bess. Elizabeth is rescued by the US Cavalry after being captive for a year and returned to her father who also thought she was dead. She has a confrontation with Will and Bess. Liz has been gone a year and returns with Will's son and is pregnant with an Indian baby.

This novel plunges the reader into the last agonizing years of the Civil War. Cattle from the Florida plains are needed to save a desperate South from starvation. But quicksand and snake-filled swamps, Yankee raiders, and vicious outlaws block the trails between Florida and the rest of the Confederacy. Men like Tree Hooker, tough as alligator hide and quick with gun, knife, or whip, reckon with Union forces and renegades when they take on the job of driving the herds.

A case gone wrong sends Devon on a drunken ride to Nitika's side. Unwilling to accept the possible death of his partner, Devon spends his time at the ranch remembering the cases the he, Raven, and Nitika were involved in. Hunter didn't know about Nitika's life as a detective and was very interested in the stories. From her hiring by Allan Pinkerton himself to her own kidnapping, Nitika Brodie proved she could handle herself in any situation. Not only did she gain the respect of her fellow detectives, she proved a woman could do the job just as good as a man. If not better.

Durango, Colorado, and Farmington, New Mexico square off against each other in a fight to control the general area in this tale, based upon actual facts. Each side is busy rustling cows and horses from each other's herds and blaming the other. But, Ike and Port Stockton of the Colorado faction are a little more liberal and sometimes grab available Colorado ranchers' stock for the butcher shop.

Ike is a good PR man and influences several Colorado newspapers to root for them, and for a time Ike is unbelievably described as a defender of justice against the New Mexico bad guys. But soon the axe falls; everybody gets their comeuppance. George Woods of the Colorado group and his story is played out against the backdrop of the frontier west, and his confused heart gets him into darker trouble than he can ever imagine.

Leah is a single female who headed west to become a pioneer. She encounters a lot more than she ever could have imagine. She falls for a rustic mountain man that takes her on wild adventures. She stands against renegades, the army, gunslingers, robbers, and more. The town never new a city girl could save their town. This is only the first book of many to come in this series. It's full of lies, murders, mysteries with a twist that will leave you wanting more and so much more. My books will always have the same peple, setting, and all. The whole town knows secrets about Leah and her devoted mountain man that you could never imagine. Even their own parents are in on the mysterious life they have among the Cheyenne Indians and the president of the United States. The trust is always an issue from the shy school teacher to the owner of the saloon.

As a wagon train heads to the American West in the late 1800's, a fast paced collision course develops between a fair maiden, a dashing new cavalry officer and a teenage indian brave, named Little Yellow Hawk. Violence, romance, treachery and danger lurk around every corner. Fort Washington and its inhabitants face an onslaught of emotional battles complicated by a sinister plot. Life and death decisions become more frequent as the indian attacks increase. Settlers are murdered, and seek refuge in Fort Washington as the action culminates in a final assault. Little Yellow Hawk is a hero of remarkable courage and honesty. He rises to the occasion, time and time again, providing the reader with an insight into the growth process and maturity that an indian brave confronts, and ultimately conquers.