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The Foothill Spirits: Book One - Frontier Life & the Shawnees    by Betty Casbeer Carroll
Price: Free! 33470 words. Published on August 3, 2011. .

This is a historical novel set in 1803 for teens and parents. It uses fantasy and time travel to engage young readers with the fictional Douglas family, who are squatting in the Ohio wilderness near a family of defiant Shawnees, who believe the land belongs to everyone and refuse to move to Indian Territory in northwest Ohio. Both families are hiding from the militia (ordered to evict them).
Avenge    by Richard Puz
Price: $3.99 USD. 83350 words. Published on August 18, 2011. .

Violence rages in 1853, when outlaws steal Curtis Sommer's prized horses. The young man begins a journey across the American frontier from Missouri to Texas and on to Nebraska Territory. He seeks justice while confronting vicious enemies and the fury of nature. The last outlaw escapes and brutally rapes a young woman. The two become entangled in startling twists of fate and an epic battle of wits.
Roaring River    by Richard Puz
Price: $0.99 USD. 5190 words. Published on October 7, 2011. .

Bushwhackers ambush two men, killing one. The survivor leads a posse to track down the band of killers, leading to an epic battle.
Three Bells & Newtonia    by Richard Puz
Price: $1.29 USD. 6270 words. Published on October 7, 2011. .

Two short stories are presented about American frontier life in the 1800s. Three Bells- -Settlers on remote Indiana farms prepare for attacks from Chief Blackhawk's warriors. What happens one fateful night changes everyone forever. Newtonia--Compassion is found by settlers on the frontier, caught between warring armies as the Civil War rages in southwest Missouri.
Smoke    by Richard Puz
Price: $0.99 USD. 2470 words. Published on October 7, 2011. .

Short Story about the American frontier in the 1800s. Prairies are one of God’s greatest gifts, but these can also turn deadly. Pioneers take desperate measures to save everything they have created.
Abraham    by Richard Puz
Price: $1.29 USD. 5930 words. Published on October 7, 2011. .

Young raw-recruit Abraham is exposed to the terror of war during the Battle for New Orleans. A frontiersman provides the wisdom to help him survive and become a man.
Phillipa and the Big Scot    by Joan Adamak
Price: $2.99 USD. 56260 words. Published on November 20, 2011. .

1880s: young, beautiful, rich, pampered Bostonian Phillipa naively seduced by suave Armand conceives,is forced into a loveless marriage with smitten Western fur trader, Scotty MacTavish. Unprepared, Phillipa faces the hardships and rigors of riding horseback westward, Indians, miscarriage, bears, mountain men, rugged frontier living. Can Phillipa ever come to love Scotty and adapt to his life?
Ouabache    by David A. Lottes
Price: $9.99 USD. 61620 words. Published on February 7, 2012. .

Ouabache is the old French spelling of Wabash, the Algonquin word waapaahšiiki, the name the Miami Indians gave to the river that runs through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. This is a novel about life in the valley during the French Colonial period.
The Westering    by Tom Sheehan
Price: $1.99 USD. 67130 words. Published by MilSpeak Books  on March 8, 2012. .

The 21 short stories crafted by Tom Sheehan in THE WESTERING tell of the pioneering of those who came from many countries, many customs, many cultures, and brought much of that mix with them to create the American West as we now know it. THE WESTERING has been nominated for the 2012 National Books Award in Fiction.
My Best Man's Mother    by Mary C. Findley
Price: Free! 7930 words. Published on April 6, 2012. .

Once his friend Jeremy is free from prison it seems as if all Benny's troubles are over. It can't be that hard to get his mother married and get a new home for them both. Benny wonders if God can really make all things new -- Jeremy's scarred face, Uncle Tom's hard heart, and delay after delay of plans for a new future doctoring and spreading the Word out West.