Gambler    by WIll Welton
Price: $5.99 USD. 85390 words. Published on August 1, 2010. .
In the early years of the War Between the States, Civil War or War of Northern Aggression, as some southerners called it, a man paid his debts however he could. In the southern states, at times, slaves were used as collateral and won or lost on the turn of a card in games of chance. Whole plantations was lost because of this war and the slaves set free with no where to go.

Heartbreak and Heaven    by David M. Delo
Price: $5.99 USD. 161000 words. Published on August 8, 2011. .
A frontier-period historical novel and love story, based on the life of a military post trader, and exemplifies "the resilient frontier spirit,” the tenacity and fortitude to overcome challenges on the frontier.

Slaveboy, The Fiddling for Freedom Series, Book 1    by Michael Wenberg
Price: $0.99 USD. 40760 words. Published on March 24, 2012. .
"Slaveboy,"the first book in the Fiddling for Freedom series, was inspired by the life of African-American slave and pioneer, Louis Southworth, who traveled the Oregon Trail with his mother and master in the early 1850s and then went on to earn enough money to buy his freedom by playing fiddle in the gold camps in California and Nevada. This is a middle-grade chapter book.