Gilded Age
Prima Donna
Prima Donna is the story of 19th-century opera singer Sabine Conrad and how she went from stardom in New York…
No Less Than the Journey
The novel is set in the late 1870s. Wesley Curnow has emigrated from the Welsh coal mining country of Cornwall…
Race for the Dying
Thomas Parks of Connecticut, newly graduated from a prestigious medical school back East, arrives in Port McKinney, Washington in 1891…
A Bride in the Bargain
In 1865, the land of Seattle, Washington Territory, belongs to landowners with wives: a married man can acquire 640 acres…
A Claim of Her Own
Desperate to escape an abusive employer, twenty-year-old Mattie O’Keefe makes the arduous trek to the gold-rush town of Deadwood, in…
Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West
This collection of letters, between Leroy Carpenter, of Greeley, Colorado, and Martha Bennett, of DeWitt, Iowa, covers from January 1871…
Montana Rose
In the Montana Territory in 1875, Cassie Griffin, pregnant and newly widowed, has just buried her husband when the menacing…
Cowboy Christmas
Annette Talbot considers herself a coward because she escaped the brutality of Claude Leveques by leaving, unburied, the body of…
The Messenger
In the late 1800s, Royce Blood owned his own spread, was married to a young woman, and had a young…
Riding Vengeance with the James Gang
In the preface to this novel about the notorious gang headed by Frank and Jesse James, Gilmore expresses how difficult…
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