Twelve year old Alf Smith trembled with excitement when the four cowboys rode past him as he walked home from school. This was Illinois farming country and he had never seen a real cowboy. The big Mexican saddles, the tall boots with the jingling spurs and the pistols strapped on their sides, they were just like the Texas cowboys he had read about in books and newspapers. Alf hurried home to tell his parents but his excitement soon turned to horror when he arrived to find the farmhouse engulfed in flames. Later, when the fire had burned itself out, neighbors found his parent's ashes in the bedroom. Everyone thought the fire was accidental, but Alf noticed certain valuable objects were missing from the rubble. He suspected the four cowboys robbed and murdered his parents but by the time he convinced the local Sheriff, it was too late. The cowboys were nowhere to be found. Nine years pass and Alf is still troubled by his suspicions of that tragic day. He decides to go to Texas and look for the murderers. Alf begins his journey with one clue; all the cowboys had red stars on their boots and might have been in Hood's Texas Brigade during the Civil War. Along the way, Alf finds more clues but he also finds love and adventure waiting for him. A ride on a Mississippi riverboat, a search for buried treasure, a beautiful young girl trapped in a life of prostitution, and a cattle drive to Dodge City are only a few of them. During Alf's long Journey To Vengeance he must face many challenges but first he must change from a boy crying over a grave to a man willing to dispense Justice with his gun.

This story has it all, mystery, action, a love story; all in a historically correct era of the old West. Will Roberts left his home in Kentucky and headed west to find his fortune. For ten years he has drifted from job to job with nothing to show for it but his horse and saddle. One day he drifts into the little town of El Dorado where at the local saloon he is drawn into a gunfight and saves the life of a grubby, foul smelling miner. The grateful miner who's name is Salty offers to reward Will with half interest in his gold mine. The same day Will meets and falls in love with Victoria, the daughter of the local sheriff. He wants to marry her but he is broke and has no job so even though Will is skeptical, he goes with Salty to the mine to check it out. Meanwhile Barney Lardman the leader of the local degenerate outlaw gang and the brother of the man Will killed in the saloon sends his gang out looking for will to kill him. Another brother Jude, a sadistic murderer and rapist heads to El Dorado looking for either Will or Victoria to vent his anger on. Will is in Laramie when he learns about Jude and he races to save Victoria but he is miles away and many obstacles bar his path. Will he save her? Is Salty's gold mine real? Read this fast moving, action packed story to find out the exciting conclusion.

Fleeing from murderous Apaches, Bo Logan finds a hidden valley in the Arizona desert but he also discovers a mystery that he can't ignore. Tom O"shay, a miner, has a cabin in the valley but he has vanished and his young daughter Bonnie is stranded somewhere in the slums of New York City. Bo must choose between courting Mary, his new found love in Tucson or traveling across the country and undertaking the almost impossible task of finding young Bonnie. Will the treasure at Rainbow's end be found?